{"id":290184,"date":"2024-04-10T19:39:41","date_gmt":"2024-04-10T14:09:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=290184"},"modified":"2024-04-10T19:39:41","modified_gmt":"2024-04-10T14:09:41","slug":"parental-consent-before-using-a-childs-personal-data-aadhaar-based-age-tokens-can-solve-a-privacy-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/parental-consent-before-using-a-childs-personal-data-aadhaar-based-age-tokens-can-solve-a-privacy-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"Parental consent before using a child’s personal data: Aadhaar-based age tokens can solve a privacy problem"},"content":{"rendered":"

Source<\/strong>: The post parental consent before using a child’s personal data has been created, based on the article \u201cAadhaar-based age tokens can solve a privacy problem<\/strong>\u201d published in \u201cLive mints<\/strong>\u201d on 10th April 2024.<\/p>\n

UPSC Syllabus Topic:<\/strong> GS Paper 2-governance-Government policies and interventions for development in various sectors and issues arising out of their design and implementation.<\/p>\n

News<\/strong>: The article discusses India’s DPDP Act of 2023, specifically Section 9, which requires companies to get parental consent before using a child’s personal data, aiming to protect children’s privacy online. It suggests using zero-knowledge proofs with Aadhaar, India’s digital ID system, to verify age without revealing personal information, making the internet safer for kids.<\/p>\n

For details information on Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Act, 2023,<\/strong> read here<\/a><\/p>\n

What are the issues with India’s Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Act, 2023?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Mandatory Age Verification:<\/strong> The DPDP Act requires businesses to confirm if users are children. This means verifying the age of every user, which is complex and intrusive.<\/p>\n

Increased Friction in Online Experience: <\/strong>Age verification adds steps to browsing, disrupting the seamless experience of moving between websites.<\/p>\n

Potential for Increased Data Collection: <\/strong>The act could unintentionally give businesses a reason to collect more personal data, under the guise of complying with the law.<\/p>\n

Global Precedents: <\/strong>Similar laws, like the UK’s Children Online Harms Act, also impose age-gating, suggesting this approach is gaining traction globally.<\/p>\n

What is the proposed solution?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

The proposed solution to the challenges posed by India’s DPDP Act is the use of zero-knowledge proofs (ZKPs)<\/strong> in combination with Aadhaar, India’s digital identity system.<\/p>\n

This method allows age verification without disclosing other personal information<\/strong>. By generating a digital token through Aadhaar, users can prove their age anonymously when accessing websites.<\/p>\n

This approach aims to maintain privacy while complying with the age verification<\/strong> requirements of the law. addresses the friction and privacy concerns by providing a streamlined and secure method for age verification, leveraging India’s existing digital identity infrastructure.<\/p>\n

This method, while based on India\u2019s Aadhaar system, offers a framework that could be adapted worldwide for online age verification.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Questions for practice:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Discuss how zero-knowledge proofs (ZKPs) with Aadhaar could address the challenges posed by India’s DPDP Act of 2023 regarding age verification and online privacy protection for children.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Source: The post parental consent before using a child’s personal data has been created, based on the article \u201cAadhaar-based age tokens can solve a privacy problem\u201d published in \u201cLive mints\u201d on 10th April 2024. UPSC Syllabus Topic: GS Paper 2-governance-Government policies and interventions for development in various sectors and issues arising out of their design… Continue reading Parental consent before using a child’s personal data: Aadhaar-based age tokens can solve a privacy problem<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10320,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[300,212,10501],"class_list":["post-290184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-governance","tag-gs-paper-2","tag-live-mint","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10320"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290184\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}