The law may have provisions for net neutrality, data privacy, and algorithmic accountability of social media platforms. It will focus on 'user harms' specific to the online world.
India is seeing yet another showdown between Twitter and regulators. The microblogging site has challenged the government's directives asking it to take down certain posts. Why is this growing unease?
Twitter in its petition said that content does not meet the threshold for blocking under section 69A
On June 27, the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology issued a notice to the Chief Compliance Officer of Twitter Inc, giving the company 'one last opportunity'
Study says proposal to trace origin of a message on social media platforms is technologically unfeasible
The sources said Twitter has repeatedly violated directions issued under the IT Act
MeitY's notice to Twitter came after the company's "repeated failures to act on the content take-down notices sent under Section 69 A of the IT Act"
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'Tactical move by govt in terms of dealing with policy, regulatory challenges'
A year after releasing IT Rules 2021, the govt proposed a clutch of changes in it. While we await the revised version, find out what the original draft proposed and its impact on social media giants
Experts believe that though the rules are very broad in nature, this is the first time that a mechanism is being put in India that makes reporting cyber incidents mandatory
Supreme Court stayed further proceedings before high courts in matters involving challenges to IT (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules 2021
Questions are being raised on ola as to what extent can these new-age automobiles track user data and to what ends can they be utilised
The rules provide for a time-bound and robust grievance redressal mechanism
Of these, 1,264 links were blocked by the Ministry of Electronics and IT (Meity) and 47 links by the Information and Broadcasting Ministry in the current year
The Youtube channels and the websites were allegedly running anti-India content from Pakistan.
The IT Act has been the subject of heated discussion on a variety of issues, including the liability of big technology firms
More than 700 cases were registered in 2020 for violation of privacy under Section 66E of the Information Technology Act, 2000, Parliament was informed on Friday
Players stand to lose safe harbour provisions that protect them from third party content; platforms that do not act as intermediaries may be treated as publishers, held accountable for hosted content
In its first case it has heard and dealt with under the IT Act 2000, the Rajasthan government on Monday imposed a fine of Rs 27 lakh on telecom company Vodafone Idea Ltd (VIL) on a data leak matter