{"id":988721,"date":"2026-01-30T09:01:50","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T03:31:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=988721"},"modified":"2026-01-30T10:02:34","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T04:32:34","slug":"rising-digital-addiction-prompts-call-for-age-based-online-access","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/30\/rising-digital-addiction-prompts-call-for-age-based-online-access\/","title":{"rendered":"Rising digital addiction prompts call for age-based online access"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Warning that excessive use of digital devices was becoming a serious problem of addiction for both children and adults, the Economic Survey has called for age-based access to online platforms in India, digital wellness curriculum at schools, and a host of other measures to cut down on national screen time. It also flagged the need to develop a comprehensive set of indicators to assess the multidimensional effects of digital addiction interventions. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Platforms should be made responsible for enforcing age verification and age-appropriate defaults, particularly for social media, gambling apps, auto-play features, and targeted advertising,&#8221; the survey said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Warning that excessive use of digital devices was becoming a serious problem of addiction for both children and adults, the Economic Survey has called for age-based access to online platforms in India, digital wellness curriculum at schools, and a host of other measures to cut down on national screen time. It also flagged the need to develop a comprehensive set of indicators to assess the multidimensional effects of digital addiction interventions. &#8220;Platforms should be made responsible for enforcing age verification and age-appropriate defaults, particularly for social media, gambling apps, auto-play features, and targeted advertising,&#8221; the survey said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-988721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988721","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=988721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988721\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=988721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=988721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=988721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}