{"id":280824,"date":"2026-06-24T09:14:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T13:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/24\/physicswallahs-educational-gaming-entry-raises-child-data-privacy-concerns\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T16:20:23","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T20:20:23","slug":"physicswallahs-educational-gaming-entry-raises-child-data-privacy-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/24\/physicswallahs-educational-gaming-entry-raises-child-data-privacy-concerns\/","title":{"rendered":"PhysicsWallah\u2019s educational gaming entry raises child data privacy concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.medianama.com\/2026\/06\/223-physicswallah-educational-gaming-entryn-consent-children-data-privacy\/\">PhysicsWallah\u2019s educational gaming entry raises child data privacy concerns<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.medianama.com\/2026\/06\/223-physicswallah-educational-gaming-entryn-consent-children-data-privacy\/\">https:\/\/www.medianama.com\/2026\/06\/223-physicswallah-educational-gaming-entryn-consent-children-data-privacy\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-24 09:14:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.medianama.com\">www.medianama.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">PhysicsWallah has quietly forayed into the educational gaming space with the launch of a standalone app called \u2018PW Games.\u2019 However, the launch raises a bigger question for India\u2019s edtech sector. Can platforms simply \u201cassume\u201d they have parental consent to collect and process a minor\u2019s personal data and use it to fine-tune their systems?<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It appears that PhysicsWallah is doing exactly that, potentially violating India\u2019s Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Rules, 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The consent gap on PW Games:<\/strong> The platform\u2019s privacy policy states that if a user is under 18, it is \u201cassumed\u201d that a parent or a legal guardian has consented to the collection and processing of a minor\u2019s personal information, which may include:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Name<\/li>\n<li>Email address<\/li>\n<li>Phone number<\/li>\n<li>Profile picture<\/li>\n<li>Age or grade level<\/li>\n<li>Educational interests<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The app may also collect <strong>usage information<\/strong>, including but not limited to:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>App usage statistics<\/li>\n<li>Device type and browser information<\/li>\n<li>IP address and approximate location<\/li>\n<li>Game activity and gameplay progress<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The company says it <strong>does not sell or rent personal data<\/strong> to third parties, but it may share \u201climited\u201d information with its partners, who aid the platform in \u2014<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Payment processing<\/li>\n<li>Cloud hosting and infrastructure<\/li>\n<li>Analytics services<\/li>\n<li>Customer support systems<\/li>\n<li>Marketing communication tools<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The company uses the personal data collected to \u201cprovide access\u201d to PW Games, personalise gameplay experience, track learning progress, improve games and platform features, and prevent fraud, misuse, and illegal activities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While Rule 10 of DPDP Rules, 2025 requires data fiduciaries to obtain verifiable parental consent before collecting and processing a minor\u2019s data, PW Games\u2019 privacy policy does exactly the opposite of that, Malcolm Gomes, Chief Operating Officer at IDfy, told MediaNama.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt assumes a parent agreed simply because someone registered, places no obligation on the&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.medianama.com\/2026\/06\/223-physicswallah-educational-gaming-entryn-consent-children-data-privacy\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PhysicsWallah\u2019s educational gaming entry raises child data privacy concerns https:\/\/www.medianama.com\/2026\/06\/223-physicswallah-educational-gaming-entryn-consent-children-data-privacy\/ Publish Date: 2026-06-24 09:14:00 Source&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":280825,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.medianama.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/NEW-1280X720-FEATURED-8-1.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-280824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-privacy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280824"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280824"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":280826,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280824\/revisions\/280826"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/280825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}