Registrations for MediaNama’s discussion on the Impact of DoT’s Mobile Validation Rules on Internet Businesses are about to close soon. The draft amendment mandates that every internet business using mobile numbers for user verification must integrate with a proposed Mobile Number Validation (MNV) platform, share identifier usage data with government agencies, and comply with ongoing obligations, including the immediate suspension of identifiers upon government direction.

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Our discussion will explore the impact of the amendment on businesses with respect to user onboarding workflows, customer engagement, and the cost of user validation. We will also examine implications for user privacy and jurisdictional overlaps between the DoT and the IT Ministry.

Date: July 31 (Thursday), 2025 

Time: 12:30 PM – 5:00 PM

Venue: Gulmohar Hall, India Habitat Centre, Delhi

Agenda:
12:30 PM – 1:30 PM | Lunch and Networking
1:30 PM – 3:00 PM | Impact on Businesses (including recommendations from businesses)
3:00 PM –3:15 PM | Tea and Networking
3:15 PM – 4:45 PM | Jurisdiction, Regulatory Overlap and Implications for users (including recommendations from legal/users perspective)
4:45 PM – 5:00 PM | Review of recommendations

The discussion seeks to:

Explain the impact on Internet businesses, including:

Scale of Internet businesses impacted, in terms of numbers, size and scope of businesses

Impact in terms of compliance requirements

Technical impact in terms of workflows

Cost impact for user validation for Internet businesses

Impact on International businesses using mobile numbers for validation

Impact on usage of mobile validation as an onboarding feature

Identify gaps in safeguards for businesses and users:

Assess risks to user privacy

Identify principles for procedures related to lawful data access

Understand how to prevent disruption of existing processes: Identify recommendations for changes to ensure that Internet user verification flows, messaging systems, and customer engagement models remain unaffected or narrow down the impact.

Identify jurisdictional concerns:

Conflicts of jurisdiction with MeitY and the IT Act

Identify gaps in safeguards for users and businesses in line with established legal processes under the IT Act and DPDP Act, including procedures for suspension and lawful data access

Note: 

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Registration does not guarantee attendance. In case you fit our mandate for the intended audience, we’ll send you a confirmation before tomorrow. Registrations close at 2PM today. 

Your contact information will never be shared with anyone outside of MediaNama.

This discussion is being organised with support from PhonePe, Truecaller and Meta. Our community partners for this event are Broadband India Forum, CUTS-International and the Internet Freedom Foundation (IFF).

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