Data Bill age­-gating worries edtech, gaming, social media firms

With India retaining the age of children as below 18 in the upcoming Digital Personal Data Protection Bill, 2022, firms across several sectors such as edtech, gaming apart from social media are concerned about being significantly impacted.

Experts pointed out that the international norms for age of consent is 16 and are arguing that a significant part of the population will have to go through many hoops to get Internet access. They argued that the poor’s access to videos, access to technology and access to platform information will get impacted further increasing the digital divide for them.