# India DPDP Act 2023 SC-008 — Children's Data Processing Controls - Source: https://support.icompaas.com/compliance/india-dpdp-act-2023/sc-008-children-s-data-processing-controls - Section: [Compliance](https://support.icompaas.com/compliance) › [Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 (India)](https://support.icompaas.com/compliance/india-dpdp-act-2023) › Scope & Classification (SC) - Last updated: 2026-06-05 - Publisher: iCompaas, Inc. (https://www.icompaas.com) **India DPDP Act 2023**·Control `SC-008`·critical·Component: **Scope & Classification** ## What this control requires > Implement technical and procedural controls to: (a) verify age before processing personal data (date-of-birth validation with system enforcement); (b) obtain verifiable parental/guardian consent for under-18 data subjects; (c) prohibit behavioural tracking, monitoring, and targeted advertising directed at children; (d) restrict processing likely to cause detrimental effect to child well-being. Objective: Protect children's personal data from unlawful processing and ensure verifiable parental consent is obtained before any processing of child data commences. > > — India DPDP Act 2023, Control SC-008 ### In plain English Implement technical and procedural controls to: (a) verify age before processing personal data (date-of-birth validation with system enforcement); (b) obtain verifiable parental/guardian consent for under-18 data subjects; (c) prohibit behavioural tracking, monitoring, and targeted advertising directed at children; (d) restrict processing likely to cause detrimental effect to child well-being. In practice, this means you can prove you implement children's data processing controls-level controls on a defined cadence. ## Why it matters Penalties under the DPDP Act reach ₹250 crore per instance of significant non-compliance, and the Act applies extra-territorially to any entity processing personal data of individuals in India in connection with offering goods or services. This control is rated **critical** in the source catalogue. Treat gaps here as production incidents in the risk register, not housekeeping. ## What an auditor looks for Indian DPAs and statutory auditors will look for: documented consent capture and revocation flows, a designated Data Protection Officer (for Significant Data Fiduciaries), breach-notification workflows tied to Data Protection Board notification timelines, and Records of Processing that match the consent notice the user saw. Within **Scope & Classification**, the assessor will trace your implementation back to the catalogue reference (Control SC-008) and look for objective evidence on the latest two assessment cycles. ## How to implement #### Policy Management **Docs.** Keep each policy in version-controlled Markdown alongside the code that implements it; ship a signed PDF snapshot at each annual review and link the SHA into the SoA. #### Asset Inventory **AWS.** AWS Config Aggregator across every account + region gives a real-time inventory; ship the daily snapshot to S3 and surface drift in Security Hub. **Azure.** Azure Resource Graph plus Defender for Cloud's inventory blade enumerates every subscription; export to Log Analytics for retention and Workbooks for reporting. **GCP.** Cloud Asset Inventory exports a daily feed of every resource and IAM binding; query via BigQuery and alert on appearance/disappearance. **Endpoints.** Pipe MDM telemetry (Intune / Jamf / Workspace ONE) into your CMDB so laptops and phones are inventoried with the same rigour as cloud resources. ### Operational checklist - **Implement.** Document the trigger, the owner and the cadence. - **Ensure.** Document the trigger, the owner and the cadence. - **Monitor.** Document the trigger, the owner and the cadence. - **Scope:** children's data processing controls. ## Evidence to collect - **Policy Document.** A signed and version-controlled policy / standard / procedure document. Signed policies, procedures, and registers document the safeguard. Focus: Children's Data Processing Controls. ## Common pitfalls - Policies that no engineer has read; the version in Confluence drifts from the version that's actually being enforced. - Inventories that exclude SaaS, shadow IT and ephemeral cloud resources (Lambda, Cloud Run, K8s pods) miss the assets where most modern incidents start. ## How it maps to other frameworks Computed from shared tags, control component and key-operation subjects — handy when you are reconciling controls across an audit. - [**ISO/IEC 27701:2025 A.1.2.9** — Records related to processing PII](https://support.icompaas.com/compliance/iso-27701-2025/a-1-2-9-records-related-to-processing-pii) - [**GDPR Article 14** — Information to be provided where personal data have not been obtained from the data subject](https://support.icompaas.com/compliance/gdpr/article-14-information-to-be-provided-where-personal-data-have-not-been-obtained-from-the) - [**SOC 2 (2017 TSC) P2.1** — Communication of Data Subject Choices and Consequences](https://support.icompaas.com/compliance/soc-2-trust-services-criteria/p2-1-communication-of-data-subject-choices-and-consequences) ## Related controls in India DPDP Act 2023 - [**Control SC-007** — Lawful Processing Matrix](https://support.icompaas.com/compliance/india-dpdp-act-2023/sc-007-lawful-processing-matrix) - [**Control SC-001** — Digital Personal Data Inventory](https://support.icompaas.com/compliance/india-dpdp-act-2023/sc-001-digital-personal-data-inventory) - [**Control SC-003** — Data Fiduciary Role Assignment & ROPA](https://support.icompaas.com/compliance/india-dpdp-act-2023/sc-003-data-fiduciary-role-assignment-ropa) - [**Control SC-005** — Data Processor Register & DPA Management](https://support.icompaas.com/compliance/india-dpdp-act-2023/sc-005-data-processor-register-dpa-management) - [**Control SC-002** — Data Principal Identification & Guardian Consent Management](https://support.icompaas.com/compliance/india-dpdp-act-2023/sc-002-data-principal-identification-guardian-consent-management) - [**Control SC-004** — Significant Data Fiduciary (SDF) Self-Assessment](https://support.icompaas.com/compliance/india-dpdp-act-2023/sc-004-significant-data-fiduciary-sdf-self-assessment) ## References - [Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (India) — India DPDP Act 2023](https://www.meity.gov.in/content/digital-personal-data-protection-act-2023) - Catalogue identifier: `Control SC-008` Topics: governance riskdata protectionprivacy managementpolicy managementasset inventory ## Related compliance guidance - [India's DPDP Act 2023: a practical compliance guide for cloud teams](https://support.icompaas.com/compliance/india-dpdp-act-2023): Start with the full DPDP Act implementation guide — scope, roadmap, evidence and how the assessment runs. - [GDPR compliance: a practical implementation guide for cloud-native SaaS teams](https://support.icompaas.com/compliance/gdpr): Most teams extend an existing GDPR programme to India; this guide shows where the lawful bases, timelines and breach rules differ. - [ISO/IEC 27001:2022 compliance: a practical implementation guide](https://support.icompaas.com/compliance/iso-27001-2022): Rule 6's reasonable security safeguards map almost one-to-one onto ISO 27001 Annex A controls you may already operate.