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In 2025 India's Supreme Court declined to ban under-13s itself but directed the central government to propose age verification for social media; as of late 2025 no such law had passed.
In 2025 India's Supreme Court declined to ban under-13s itself but directed the central government to propose age verification for social media; as of late 2025 no such law had passed. The Digital Personal Data Protection Act separately requires parental consent to process data of under-18s, with rules still being finalised.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
VPN use is legal, but a 2022 CERT-In directive forces providers to log user data for five years; several major providers pulled their physical servers out of India rather than comply.
Effective: 2022
Source: cert-in.org.in
Aadhaar is the world's largest biometric digital identity system, covering well over a billion residents.
Effective: Since 2016
Source: uidai.gov.in
Not yet -- a bill is pending. Age-verification proposal (Supreme Court direction; DPDP) is pending. In 2025 India's Supreme Court declined to ban under-13s itself but directed the central government to propose age verification for social media; as of late 2025 no such law had passed.
VPN use is legal, but a 2022 CERT-In directive forces providers to log user data for five years; several major providers pulled their physical servers out of India rather than comply.
Aadhaar is the world's largest biometric digital identity system, covering well over a billion residents.
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