<h1>Beta launch of culturally tailored emotional-support AI raises data protection, medical-advice, age-verification and consumer-safety obligations</h1> An Indian developer is launching a beta of a culturally tailored conversational AI marketed as an emotional-support companion, with chat, upcoming journaling, mood-tracking and voice-call features. Legally salient points include asserted privacy-first design and health-related claims that may trigger data-protection, medical-advice and consumer-protection obligations; required informed-consent, age-verification and safeguarding measures for vulnerable users; content-moderation and liability exposure for harmful or negligent responses; and potential regulatory scrutiny over cross-border data transfers, profiling and advertising representations as the product expands into regional languages.