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- Government will add provision to IT Intermediary Rules barring minors under 18 from opening social media accounts.
- Supreme Court bench led by Chief Justice Surya Kant asked the Centre to issue statutory platform-compliance directions.
- NGO Just Rights for Children Alliance filed a petition seeking age-gating and parental-consent safeguards for minors.
- The petition warned of online grooming, sexual exploitation, trafficking, profiling, data misuse, cyberbullying and age-inappropriate content.
