{"id":974323,"date":"2025-11-15T11:43:36","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T06:13:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=974323"},"modified":"2025-11-15T11:43:36","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T06:13:36","slug":"citizens-can-control-their-digital-data-as-protection-law-goes-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/11\/15\/citizens-can-control-their-digital-data-as-protection-law-goes-live\/","title":{"rendered":"Citizens can control their digital data as protection law goes live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Millions of citizens going online will have guaranteed control over their digital data while social media companies such as Facebook and Instagram will need verifiable parental consent before onboarding children, or those under 18 years, with the govt finally notifying rules to operationalise the digital personal data protection (DPDP) law that was originally passed by Parliament in Aug 2023. The much-awaited rules promise a consent-based regime to safeguard the data of users who go online for social media, e-commerce, gaming, banking, payments and for availing of govt services.<\/p>\n<p>Companies and organisations violating the rules will face penalties, up to \u20b9250cr for serious failures to protect data, and breaches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Millions of citizens going online will have guaranteed control over their digital data while social media companies such as Facebook and Instagram will need verifiable parental consent before onboarding children, or those under 18 years, with the govt finally notifying rules to operationalise the digital personal data protection (DPDP) law that was originally passed by Parliament in Aug 2023. The much-awaited rules promise a consent-based regime to safeguard the data of users who go online for social media, e-commerce, gaming, banking, payments and for availing of govt services. Companies and organisations violating the rules will face penalties, up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-974323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=974323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974323\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=974323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=974323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=974323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}