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Decode's Young Minds reporting investigates how digital systems shape childhood in India. What children encounter online. How their data is collected and kept. Where the safeguards exist on paper and fail in practice.

Children are both the most surveilled and the least consulted constituency of India's digital age. Platforms are built for engagement, not for childhood. Algorithms do not distinguish between a teenager and an adult. And yet, young people are also building movements, organising protests, and reshaping culture on the same platforms designed to exploit them.Decode's Young Minds reporting investigates how digital systems shape childhood in India - what children encounter online, how their data is collected and kept, where safeguards exist on paper and fail in practice, and how a generation raised on the internet is starting to fight back.

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