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Parenting in the Screen Age: India’s First Digital Parenting Study

When the COVID-19 pandemic swept across the globe, our lives—and our children’s lives—shifted almost overnight into digital spaces. Classrooms became Zoom calls, playdates transformed into multiplayer video games, and Sunday family albums found their home on WhatsApp groups. But this rapid digital adoption came with an alarming side effect: a sharp rise in cybercrimes targeting children. Watch Full Video Here From Well-Intentioned Posts to Unintended Risks As I dug deeper into this issue, one pattern emerged again and again: the

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sharenting, DADP Act, children's rights, PIIR Foundation

Parents don’t always know best: The problem with gatekeeping children’s internet access

For today’s children, the internet is the first playground – a space where they learn, explore, and leave their first digital footprints. Yet, as parents eagerly document these moments with love and pride, an unintended digital shadow begins to follow their children, a shadow they neither chose nor control. In this delicate balance between parental pride and privacy lies the urgent need for a rights-based approach to safeguard children’s rights in the digital age.  The Digital Personal Data Protection Rules,

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