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Government of India asks social media firms to confirm and share their responses 'ASAP and preferably today itself' on status of their compliance with new IT digital rules. Social media companies were earlier given a three-month deadline to comply with the rules that were issued on February 25.

Along with the compliance status on the new rules, the ministry has also sought the details of the chief compliance officer, nodal contact person, resident grievance officer, including their respective contact details and physical contact address in India.

The ministry has sent a letter in this regard to all significant SSMI, confirmed the MeitY to MediaNama

KOLKATA: Fears of social media platforms being switched off for not complying with the new Indian IT rules applicable to them from today (26 May) proved unfounded. However, they cannot rest easy as the ministry of electronics and information technology (MeitY) has written to “Significant Social Media Intermediaries” (SSMI) asking for details of compliance. Under the new “the

Backstory:  From ‘Partly Unfree’ to ‘Fully Unfree’? The New IT Rules Could Hasten the Slide A fortnightly column from The Wires public editor. Photo: Athul Cyriac Ajay/Unsplash Tech13/Mar/2021 The two Union ministers, Ravi Shankar Prasad and Prakash Javadekar, who had jointly unveiled the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Ethics Code) Rules, 2021, at a press conference on February 25, are today hard at work trying to defuse the blowback. Barely h...

The court shielded Amazon Prime Video India head Aparna Purohit from arrest in connection with a Noida case over the alleged anti-Hindu content of Tandav, a series shown on the streaming service. She was granted the protection on condition she cooperated with the investigation. The other judge on the bench was R Subhash Reddy.