X's (formerly Twitter) latest submission also reveals details of MeitY's Section 79(3)(b) officer, details of an order from the Grievance Appellate Committee, and much more.

This order was issued as the apex court heard the Centre's transfer petition to transfer X's appeal pending before Karnataka HC along with Kunal Kamra's writ petition from Bombay HC.

Big Tech executives were grilled as India's parliamentary standing committee on IT sought an apology from Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg over temporary removal of PM Modi's Instagram video.

The company is testing an optional age-declaration feature to comply with the pending provisions related to processing of children's data in the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023,

The DoT has sought the TRAI's recommendations on the net neutrality framework, focussing on network management practices that include network slicing.

The amicus submitted that Bluetooth-enabled messaging services such as BitChat were not traceable and fall within the ambit of DoT.

In a July 24 meeting, senior government officials from MHA, MeitY and MIB told the companies to file a compliance report by July 27.

The Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre had sought the removal of not just BitChat, and GitHub was not the only intermediary to get the takedown notice.

Telegram, in its court challenge against the Indian government's blocking order, has said that it cannot change its global technical architecture or features for one jurisdiction.

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Online games from specific countries could require mandatory registration with the Online Gaming Authority as per latest discussions within MeitY.

Intermediaries have been added to Part III of IT Rules only to enable MIB to contact lay users posting news content, IT ministry and MIB officials told the industry in an April 7 meeting.

The owner of X account @Nher_who has challenged the Centre's Section 69A blocking order against his X account, citing violations of the blocking law and rules.

Citing social harm from bot-led amplification of misinformation, MeitY asked industry on February 12 how they dealt with bots, and if regulation is required.

In a no holds barred meeting on February 25, the information technology secretary told intermediaries that no extension or exemption from compliance with the amended IT Rules will be granted.

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In the most strongly worded submission made thus far, the USISPF criticised the amendments to IT Rules for being unfeasible and called out the inefficiencies of I4C's Sahyog portal.

IAMAI and BIF wrote to the Indian IT ministry on February 16, criticising the recent amendments to intermediary rules that reduced content takedown timelines to as little as two hours.

The platform, part of the charter of the working group on democratising AI resources, will serve as "a shared infrastructure and knowledge hub" for countries.

In a closed-door meeting on January 22, MeitY gave large technology companies time until February 4 to give feedback on immediate enactment of certain provisions.

MIB has proposed amending the Digital Media Ethics Code under IT Rules, 2021 to that effect. It has also proposed provisions to deal with obscenity online, deriving from Section 67 of the IT Act.

Following the blast near Red Fort, MeitY has advised all intermediaries to proactively identify and remove content that rationalises such violence, citing threat to national security, ongoing security...

Digipub wants to join X's writ appeal against a September order that dismissed X's petition against the use of specific IT Act provisions, I4C's Sahyog portal used to issue online content takedown not...

X has challenged the single judge's order dismissing its petition against the Centre's use of Section 79(3)(b) of IT Act, Rule 3(1)(d) of IT Rules, and Sahyog portal to send content takedown notices.

X has challenged the single judge's order dismissing its petition against the Centre's use of Section 79(3)(b) of IT Act, Rule 3(1)(d) of IT Rules, and Sahyog portal to send content takedown notices.

Key proposals include creation of biometric identity verification system(s) by authorised entities, and sharing access to it with the Centre.

IT Secretary S. Krishnan delved into timelines for implementation, use of blocking provisions, who is covered and who is not, and much more.

The Bill proposes to criminalise the provision, promotion and financing of online money games, essentially banning real money games in the country.

The meeting focussed on two issues with the DPDP Act: removal of exemption for journalistic work, and dilution of the RTI Act.