School Can Track. Advertisers Can't.
Fourth Schedule Part A(3): educational institutions, for educational activities or the child's safety
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Your school may track. An advertiser may not.
Fourth Schedule Part A(3): educational institutions, for educational activities or the child's safety
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Your school may track. An advertiser may not.
The Fourth Schedule, Part A, item 3.
An educational institution is a listed class,
so 9(1) and 9(3) do not apply to it.
Pause. For anything it likes?
No. The condition is in column three.
Tracking and behavioural monitoring only
for its educational activities,
or in the interests of enrolled children's safety.
The class opens the door. The condition sizes it.
r.12(1), Fourth Sch. Part A(3) — Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 + Rules, 2025
In force from 13 May 2027