“Digital Guardianship in Motion: India’s Revolutionary Framework for Protecting Children’s Data Under DPDP Rules 2025”

 A Comprehensive Legal Analysis for Judicial Officers, Advocates, and Legal Scholars

I. INTRODUCTION: THE SHIFT FROM PROTECTION TO OPERATIONAL VERIFICATION

The Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 established India’s foundational commitment to protecting children’s personal data. However, the promulgation of the Digital Personal Data Protection Rules, 2025 (effective November 13, 2025) marks a paradigmatic shift from declarative principles to operationalised, technology-enabled verification mechanisms. This transformation moves beyond philosophical commitments to create actionable, enforceable protocols that demand technical precision and procedural rigour from data fiduciaries.

The question that now demands urgent legal examination is not merely whether children’s data should be protected—but how to verify that protection through credible, scalable, and legally defensible mechanisms.

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