Readiness assessment
Media & Entertainment · Gaming

The DPDP Act for Gaming

Games sign up minors constantly, and in-game profiling for monetisation is exactly what the Act restricts for children.

In short

For under-18 players you need verifiable parental consent, age assurance, and no behavioural targeting. Children-data penalties reach ₹200 crore.

Core impacts

What changes for this sub-sector.

Under-18 players are children

A 15-year-old player is a child; verifiable parental consent applies before processing their data.

No profiling minors

You cannot profile children to serve personalised offers; this reshapes monetisation.

Age gate

Add age assurance at account creation and design consent around it.

In-game and purchase data

Chat, purchase and behavioural data is personal data with real exposure.

Rights and records

Keep consent records; honour access and erasure.

Vendors

Analytics, ads and anti-cheat vendors are processors.

Check your game data.

The readiness check flags age-gating, profiling and consent gaps.

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