SG PDPA PDPC Advisory Guidelines on Children's Personal Data, Section 4 - Age Assurance Mechanisms
Implement proportionate age assurance mechanisms to identify child users and ensure age-appropriate access
Where this comes from
Provision: PDPC Advisory Guidelines on Children's Personal Data, Section 4 - Age Assurance Mechanisms
Instrument: Singapore Personal Data Protection Act (PDPA)
Citation: Personal Data Protection Commission (PDPC), Advisory Guidelines on Children's Personal Data (March 2024), Section 4; Personal Data Protection Act 2012, Section 18 (Purposes)
Text version: PDPA 2012 (2020 Rev. Ed.); PDPC Advisory Guidelines on Children's Personal Data (2024)
Who it applies to
Child audience (designed for OR likely accessed by children) — any one of these:
- Service is specifically designed for children under 18
- Service is likely to be accessed by children under 18
What engineering work it implies
- Age Gate with Self-DeclarationCovers part of it
Simple age verification using date of birth entry with validation and session storage.
Sample acceptance criteria Landfall generates for this obligation:
- Age gate appears before accessing age-restricted content/features
- DOB input uses dropdowns (not free text) to reduce typos
- System calculates age from DOB, not from user-entered age
- Age is stored and doesn't need to be re-entered on each visit
- Age verification cannot be bypassed by direct URL access
Questions people ask
- Does SG PDPA PDPC Advisory Guidelines on Children's Personal Data, Section 4 - Age… apply to my service?
- It applies when at least one of: Service is specifically designed for children under 18; Service is likely to be accessed by children under 18.
- From when does this apply?
- SG PDPA PDPC Advisory Guidelines on Children's Personal Data, Section 4 - Age… applies from 1 March 2024. Its current status is: in force.
- What engineering work does this imply?
- Typically: Age Gate with Self-Declaration.
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