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Verifiable consent for children and persons with disability

Adopt appropriate technical and organisational measures to verify that the person giving consent is an identifiable adult who is the parent or lawful guardian — including reliance on reliable identity details already held, or a virtual token mapped to a verified identity issued by an entitled entity.

Rule 10DPDP Rules, 2025Data FiduciaryUp to ₹200 Cr
What this requires

Adopt appropriate technical and organisational measures to verify that the person giving consent is an identifiable adult who is the parent or lawful guardian — including reliance on reliable identity details already held, or a virtual token mapped to a verified identity issued by an entitled entity.

Evidence a regulator would accept

  • Age assurance mechanism description
  • Guardian verification records
  • Verification audit trail

How this product discharges it

consent (primary)
Our position

Changing this recalculates the readiness score immediately.

Current
Gap
Residual risk
Critical
Owner
Priya Nair
Last reviewed
16 Apr 2026
Next review due
08 Feb 2027

Open gaps (1)

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Evidence (1)

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History

  1. Clause status updated following remediationyesterday
    06 Aug 2026, 00:30Deepika Joshi
  2. Clause status updated following remediation4 days ago
    03 Aug 2026, 17:30Rohit Verma
  3. Clause status updated following remediation6 days ago
    01 Aug 2026, 10:30Naveen Kulkarni
  4. Clause status updated following remediation8 days ago
    30 Jul 2026, 06:30Vikram Saxena
  5. Clause status updated following remediation10 days ago
    28 Jul 2026, 00:30Imran Sethi
  6. Clause status updated following remediation13 days ago
    25 Jul 2026, 16:30System
  7. Position reviewed and recorded4 months ago
    16 Apr 2026, 11:55Priya Nair

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