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The Supreme Court on Friday refused to hear a petition seeking a ban on the use of social media for children below 13 years of age.
A bench of Justice BR Gawai and Justice Augustine George Christ said- this is a policy matter. Ask Parliament to make laws. It is outside our realm.
However, the court has given permission to appeal before the other authority. The bench said that the appeal can be made according to the law within eight weeks.
Demand to create biometric verification system The JEP Foundation’s petition demanded the Central Government and other authority to instruct to start an age verification system like biometric verification to regulate the access of children to the social media platforms. Apart from this, strict legal action was also sought on social media platforms that failed to follow the child protection rules.
Draft of rules of Digital Personal Data Protection Act ready
Now children below 18 years of age will be required to take the consent of their parents to open an account on social media. For this, the Central Government has prepared a draft of rules under the Digital Personal Data Protection Act (DPDP), 2023. This draft was released on 3 January for the people.
The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology said in the notification that people can go to mygov.in and register their objections for this draft and give suggestions. People’s objections and suggestions are being considered from 18 February.
OTP will come on the mobile-email of the parents on opening the social media account of no adult A model of the provision of the consent of the parent to open the account of minors on social media has surfaced. According to sources in the IT ministry, OTP will come on mobile phones and emails of children under 18 years of age.
This OTP will generate digital ID cards of children and parents already present in Digital Space. Through this, the data of children or parents will not be public. Permission of age and confirmation can also be taken from the parent.
According to sources in Dainik Bhaskar, the parent will not be permission forever. When they feel that their permission is being misunderstood or this permission is taken by deception, they have no idea about the permission. In such a situation, they will be able to take it back to permission.
In fact, the Central Government has prepared a draft of rules under the Digital Personal Data Protection Act (DPDP), 2023 on 3 January. Under this, children below the age of 18 years will be required to take the consent of their parents to open an account on social media.