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MeitY extends IT rules feedback deadline to May 7; proposes stricter SGI labellingThe Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology has extended the deadline for feedback on proposed amendments to the IT Rules. New r...- MeitY wants to include users, social firms in content-blocking hearingsThe government is proposing changes to content blocking rules. Users and internet intermediaries may soon get a chance to present their cas...
- YC partner on AI's funding gap, Indian startups; TCS CEO talks IT's resilienceHappy Monday! Y Combinator’s Ankit Gupta told ET in an exclusive chat that AI money is crowding at the top while early founders scramble fo...
- Delhi HC orders restoration of blocked X accountsJustice Purushaindra Kumar Kaurav ruled for full account restoration, but said specific tweets flagged in the blocking orders must remain t...
- Draft IT rule tweaks set off alarms over state powers and costsProposed amendments to India’s Information Technology Rules, 2021 spell an expanded compliance burden for intermediaries and a significant ...
- Meity moots IT rules tweaks to mandate platforms' compliance with advisories, SOPsNew draft amendments to IT rules propose mandatory compliance for intermediaries with government clarifications and guidelines. Digital rig...
- Gazette notification may allow more ministries to block contentSources told us that the government could use a gazette notification to give multiple ministries content-blocking powers under the Informat...
- X admits mistake, says it will comply with Indian law; 3,500 posts blocked, 600+ accounts deleted: ReportSocial media platform X has assured the Indian government of full compliance with its laws. The company has blocked thousands of content pi...
- X restores public access to Reuters, Reuters World accounts in IndiaX, formerly Twitter, briefly withheld the official Reuters and Reuters World accounts in India due to a legal demand, but restored access a...
- Meta asked to curb WhatsApp related scamsIndia's IT ministry is pressuring Meta to curb scams originating on WhatsApp. Fraudsters are using the platform for various schemes, includ...
- Centre asks Mark Zuckerberg's Meta to curb WhatsApp-centric scamsIndia's Ministry of Electronics and IT is working with Meta to address the rise of WhatsApp scams. The scams involve fraudulent messages an...
- India to ban Chinese-linked betting and loan lending appsIndia's Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) has begun a process to ban and block 138 betting apps and 94 loan lendin...
- Karnataka HC calls out Central government for repeated adjournments in the Twitter caseJustice Krishna S Dixit said the High Court was not at the 'beck and call' of the government when the counsel for the central government so...
- Government orders internet companies to block 67 porn websitesThe IT Rules 2021 invoked by MeitY mandates IT companies to remove or disable access to content hosted, stored or published by them which "...
- Twitter-ministry hearing in Karnataka HC adjourned till August 25The plea, listed for hearing on Tuesday, was adjourned as the counsel for the central government was unavailable.
- Twitter takedown orders proportional to user base: MeitY“India's 17,338 Legal demands between 2012 and 2021 account for 7% of the global legal demands (amounting) to 225,076 worldwide,” an intern...
- Twitter India given ‘last chance’ to follow IT rulesSocial media platform Twitter may lose intermediary immunity if it fails to comply with rules by July 4
- Twitter moves closer to ending standoff with government, blocks many accountsIT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad is likely to decline Twitter’s request for a meeting. MeitY Secretary Ajay Prakash Sawhney is likely to mee...
- Centre warns Twitter over ‘Farmer Genocide’ hashtagThe January 31 interim order was issued on the grounds that the cited URLs were spreading misinformation about the protests and had the pot...
- 'Website not found' pop-ups leave net activists fumingLast year, MeitY blocked 2,799 URLs for allegedly hosting malicious content, marking a sharp increase from 2017, when 1,385 URLs were block...
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