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Delhi HC protects personality rights of actor Naga ChaitanyaThe Delhi High Court has safeguarded actor Naga Chaitanya's personality rights. The court has stopped the spread of pornographic material a...
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...
‘Vulgar, derogatory’: Why Delhi HC ordered takedown of Honey Singh–Badshah’s ‘Mafia Mundeer’ after 20 yearsThe Delhi High Court has ordered the removal of the song 'Mafia Mundeer,' reportedly featuring Yo Yo Honey Singh and Badshah, from all onli...
UP's New Social Media Policy: Rs 8 lakh monthly income for promoting policies, life imprisonment for anti-national contentThe Uttar Pradesh government has approved a new social media policy targeting influencers and creators. Influencers can earn up to Rs 8 lak...
Deadline for public comments on draft IT rules extended to January 31On December 24, the IT Ministry released draft amendments under which social media and online platforms would need to trace originators of ...
Child pornography: Government initiates steps to access Interpol's listIn order to check online child pornography, government has initiated steps to devise a mechanism to access Interpol's 'worst-of-list'.
Flipkart stops selling ‘sexual wellness’ items“Current listings under this category will not be visible to customers with immediate effect,” Flipkart said in a message to sellers.
Section 66A of IT Act: We took up battle, big guys didn’t, says MouthShut founder Faisal FarooquiSC scrapped section 66A of Indian IT Act which gave the government rights to arrest and penalise web-users for posting ‘objectionable’ cont...
IAMAI association moves Supreme Court against government ‘take down’ ordersIAMAI said the provision ran contrary to Section 79(1) of the Act which intended to provide "safe harbour from liability to intermediaries".
UK government calls Internet companies such as Google, Microsoft and Facebook to block 'harmful' content: ReportsBritish government authorities have called chiefs of social media and telecom companies on June 17 to discuss blocking on objectionable con...
Govt fails to identify hate mongers on social media as Twitter, Google & Facebook refuse to share detailsInvestigations ran into a fire wall, as Twitter, Google and Facebook refused to share details of users who uploaded the objectionable mater...
- Delhi High Court quashes criminal case against Microsoft
Delhi HC quashed criminal proceedings against Microsoft India, a fortnight after the company was exempted by a trial court in a similar cas...
Google: Blanket ban, contents' monitoring against ConstitutionGoogle has told a Delhi court that the blanket ban and monitoring of material would be against the right to freedom of speech given in the ...
- Not responsible for user-generated content hosted on website: Facebook India
Facebook India on Tuesday told a Delhi trial court that the lawsuit against it for hosting 'objectionable' content has been filed.
- Lawsuit on offensive content motivated, says Yahoo India
Yahoo India said in a reply to a Delhi Court that the lawsuit against it on 'objectionable' content was motivated and reflects an "abuse of...
- Impossible to pre-screen Internet content: Ankit Fadia
The 28-year-old ethical hacker hopes the govt does not go the China way "which is employing 40,000 people just to block websites on a daily...
- World Economic Forum Davos 2012: Cannot censor the Web: Google to India
Ahead of a court hearing, Google made it clear that it is not possible for the company to monitor everything on its website.
- HC seeks cops' replies to pleas by Facebook, Google
The Delhi High Court today sought the city police response to the pleas by social networking sites Facebook and Google.
- Government denies plans to draft guidelines on online social media content
The government has backtracked on its plans to draft guidelines for Internet companies to monitor and screen online social media content.
- Congress website: Sonia Gandhi's profile defaced after hackers invade official website
The hacking comes barely days after telecom minister Kapil Sibal asked internet companies and social media site, Facebook.