The Ministry of Electronics and IT (MeitY) has received final approval from the Department of Legal Affairs over its proposal to create government-appointed bodies that will be empowered to review and possibly reverse content moderation and user grievance decisions taken by social media companies like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube, The Indian Express has learnt. The […]
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To curb the menace of illegal loan apps, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has been asked to prepare a ‘Whitelist’ of legal loan apps and the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MEITY) has been tasked with ensuring only such applications are available on app stores. All ministries and agencies have been asked to […]
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The customs department mandating airlines to share personal details of international flyers, the Civil Aviation Ministry’s facial recognition system DigiYatra, the MeitY’s proposal to share non-personal data collected by the government with start-ups and researchers, CERT-In’s mandate asking virtual private network (VPN) service providers to store data of their users: these are among a rising […]
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Twitter’s high-stakes legal battle against some of the Indian government’s content blocking orders has been brought up in a different high profile case — that of the platform’s lawsuit in the US against Tesla CEO Elon Musk over pulling out of his $44-billion bid to buy the social media company. Musk has accused Twitter of […]
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Twitter moved court after Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) issued a notice on June 27, 2022 informing that penal action would be initiated against the company for not complying with ‘blocking orders’ Twitter moved court after Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) issued a notice on June 27, 2022 informing that penal […]
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THE GOVERNMENT could look at clearly defining “ownership” of non-personal data held by big-tech platforms, such as Google, Meta and Amazon, if they refuse to share such data with a regulator as proposed in the draft National Data Governance Framework, The Indian Express has learnt. The draft framework, announced by the Ministry of Electronics and […]
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Disagreement between Twitter and the government over the latter’s disproportionate measures to remove/block content on the platform has intensified over the past year Disagreement between Twitter and the government over the latter’s disproportionate measures to remove/block content on the platform has intensified over the past year Alleging “disproportionate use of power”, Twitter has moved the […]
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The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) has proposed the setting up of government-appointed appellate committees that will be empowered to review and possibly reverse content moderation decisions taken by social media companies like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. In a draft of proposed amendments to the Information Technology Rules 2021 (IT Rules), the MeitY […]
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