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A newly proposed private member’s bill in Parliament aims to restrict minors under 13 from creating accounts on social media and online gaming networks unless they have verified parental consent. The Safeguarding Healthy Internet Environments for Little Digital-Natives (SHIELD) Bill seeks to enforce stringent safety obligations across digital intermediaries, including mandatory age-verification systems and parental-control dashboards to monitor children’s online activity. Furthermore, the legislation proposes to ban tech platforms from tracking, profiling, or targeting minors with personalized advertisements, while compelling them to block access to harmful content like pornography, gambling, and extremist material. Platforms that violate these proposed regulations could face heavy financial penalties reaching up to 10 crore rupees, alongside potential service suspensions for repeated defaults.
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