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PM Modi summons telecom secretary over website takedowns, sources sayPrime Minister Narendra Modi's office has summoned Telecom Secretary Amit Agrawal in response to concerns regarding fraudulent court orders...- India blocked 129 betting websites on basis of fake high court orders: ReportIndia's government ordered internet providers to block 129 betting websites based on fraudulent high court orders. Investigations have been...
- Mumbai HC orders Meta, X and Google to take down posts against Nitin Gadkari following lawsuitThe Bombay High Court has mandated an immediate removal of offensive and defamatory posts from social media, labeling them as abusive and o...
- Govt mulls authorising more ministries to issue content takedown ordersDiscussions are on with Defence, Ministry of External Affairs, and Ministry of Home Affairs, government sources said adding that once decid...
- What is the Sahyog Portal and why has comedian Kunal Kamra challenged it in court?Comedian Kunal Kamra has challenged the government's Sahyog portal in the Bombay High Court, deeming it an unconstitutional intrusion on fr...
- Delhi HC protects actor R Madhavan's personality rights, orders takedown of objectionable contentThe Delhi High Court has protected actor R Madhavan's personality rights. Several websites and online platforms are now restrained from usi...
- Case registered over AI-generated obscene deep fake videos of Telugu actor ChiranjeeviIn the complaint, the actor stated that the websites have hosted, published and are distributing AI-generated and morphed videos using his ...
- India limits content takedown powers to fewer officials after spat with Musk's XThe Indian government has reduced the number of officials authorised to order online content removal, following a legal dispute with Elon M...
- Govt blocks 25 OTT platforms for streaming obscene, vulgar contentThe action to disable 26 websites and 14 apps have been taken in consultation with the ministries of home affairs, electronics and IT, and ...
- Solicitor general defends govt’s takedown regime in X HC caseThe Indian government defended Rule 3(1)(d) of the IT Rules in the Karnataka High Court, stating it flags illegal online content to interme...
- OpenAI pulls details of Jony Ive partnership amid trademark disputeOpenAI has quietly removed all references to its $6.5 billion acquisition of Jony Ive’s AI hardware startup, IO Products, due to an ongoing...
- President Trump signs Take It Down Act, addressing nonconsensual deepfakes. What is it?President Trump signed the Take It Down Act, a bipartisan law targeting non-consensual intimate imagery and deepfakes. Introduced by Senato...
- Tesla protests sweep the globe: Is this Elon Musk’s biggest crisis yet?A wave of global protests against Tesla and its CEO, Elon Musk, is set to peak today, with over 200 demonstrations planned across the Unite...
- Indiamart among global marketplaces tagged by US for selling counterfeitA goal of preparing the list, according to the report, is to motivate appropriate action by the private sector and governments to reduce pi...
- Government seeks action from Twitter, FB on fake newsIt is learnt that while the platforms claimed to have taken down over 8 million videos on various counts from copyright violation to child ...
- In heated meeting, India seeks tougher action from US tech giants on fake newsThe officials, from the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (I&B), strongly criticised the companies and said their inaction on fake n...
- ContentID is Google’s code against piracyGoogle uses an automated identification system called ContentID on its video-sharing website YouTube to deal with copyright issues.
- 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...
- Delhi High Court orders 219 websites to be blocked: ReportsMediaNama, a news website, has reported that according to this order, no Google websites are listed, but many file storage and torrent webs...
- Google, Facebook, Yahoo summoned to face trial: What next?The debate, on what gets to stay online and what does not, has been heating up in India with the government’s recent attempts to censor the...
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