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Protecting Children's and Vulnerable People's Data in India

AI Governance, Risk & Compliance Track · Certified Children's Data Protection Specialist — India

India draws its line at eighteen, not thirteen, and prohibits tracking, behavioural monitoring and targeted advertising directed at children outright. That combination makes India one of the strictest children's data regimes in the world, and it captures a very large number of services that assume they are adult-only. This course works through Section 9 and Rules 10 to 12 in operational detail: how to establish whether a user is a child without building an intrusive verification apparatus, how verifiable guardian consent actually functions including DigiLocker-based routes, what the Fourth Schedule exempts for education and healthcare, and how to redesign a product that currently profiles minors. It treats children's data as a safeguarding question with a legal frame, not merely a compliance box.

15 modules

What you'll master

Learning objectives

01Determine whether a service is likely to process children's data and evidence the conclusion
02Select and implement a proportionate age assurance approach
03Operate verifiable guardian consent including DigiLocker-based verification
04Remove tracking, behavioural monitoring and targeted advertising for child users
05Apply the Fourth Schedule exemptions correctly without over-claiming them
06Design a service that is safe for a sixteen-year-old by default

Skills gained

DPDP Act Section 9Section 33 ScheduleITHR Child Exposure AssessmentDPDP Act Section 9(3)DPDP Rules 2025 Rule 11ITHR Prohibited Processing ChecklistDPDP Rules 2025 Rule 10ITHR Age Assurance Proportionality Matrix

Curriculum

15-module program

Full curriculum in preparation

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