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India forces Big Tech to treat under-18s as minors in privacy rules

By Freny Patel ( November 18, 2025, 00:26 GMT | Comment) -- India has significantly changed data-protection rules, defining anyone under 18 as a child. The Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023, which was put into effect by the subsequent rules released last Friday, has raised the stakes in the global debate over online safety and privacy where children are concerned. It mandates verifiable parental consent, bans tracking and targeted ads for minors and imposes heavy penalties, posing major compliance and verification challenges for global tech companies operating in India.Setting one of the world’s most stringent standards, India has redefined a "child" as anyone under 18 years of age for digital services, igniting a new phase in the global debate over online age verification....

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