Aadhaar-based consent for children to go online proposed in new data protection rules

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Aadhaar-based consent for children to go online proposed in new data protection rules
Closed-door meeting with industry scheduled on Dec 19

Aadhaar-based consent for children to go online proposed in new data protection rules

Closed-door meeting with industry scheduled on Dec 19

indianexpress.com

Mostly if inducted for 'safety' reasons, this 'feature' can be applied on everyone.
Going to be very 'interesting times', if this works out...

 

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Quoting from the article:

“For instance, a transport company can process a child’s data without age gating for the limited purpose of offering them transport services. But nothing beyond that. Similarly, the government can process a child’s data for the limited purpose of offering them welfare services,” a second official said.

Good one. No company should dare to threaten a consumer with personal threats after receiving his/her Aadhaar for verification.

Now,
Is this going to be sth that allows websites to access the supposed feature to obtain the user's age and parental consent from the Aadhaar based system? Knowing human nature, it's highly likely that this feature could be misused to abuse user privacy. E.g. online corps like Google, Microsoft, Adobe asking getting Aadhaar data for age verification.
From the article:

“This would be Aadhaar-based authentication. The internet platforms will not know the Aadhaar details of the users. It is a simple yes/no response from the Aadhaar database on a user’s age, as simple as that,” said a senior government official, who did not wish to be named, since the rules are yet to be made public.