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Why The Wire Wants the New IT Rules Struck Down
Synopsis of the petition moved in the Delhi high court by the Foundation for Independent Journalism, publisher of The Wire.
File photo of information and broadcasting minister Prakash Javadekar and law and IT minister Ravi Shankar Prasad. Photo: PTI/File
Media09/Mar/2021
On Tuesday, the Delhi high court issued notice to the Centre on a petition filed by the Foundation for Independent Journalism, publisher of
The Wire, which pleads that the governmentâs new Information Technology (IT) Rules which seek to dictate content to digital news media platforms go beyond the scope of what is permissible under the IT Act and need to be struck down.
Now, an expanded horizon of surveillance
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March 09, 2021 21:01 IST
‘Citizen watch’ gets a new meaning after the notification on the IT Rules, 2021 the promotion of lateral surveillance
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‘Citizen watch’ gets a new meaning after the notification on the IT Rules, 2021 the promotion of lateral surveillance
This year, the Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre (I4C), under the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA), launched the Cyber Crime Volunteers Programme with the aim to allow citizens to register themselves as “Cyber Crime Volunteers’’ in the role of “Unlawful Content Flaggers”. As per the official website of the National Cyber Crime Reporting Portal, the programme will help law enforcement agencies in identifying, reporting and in the removal of illegal/unlawful online content. The programme, which will be launched all over the country, is going to have its test run in Jammu and Kashmir and Tripura.
Manipur Journalist Paojel Chaoba First To Be Sent Notice Under New Digital Media Rules
The Manipur-based journalist Paojel Chaoba was earlier arrested under the Unlawful Atrocities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) and Section 124A (sedition) Twitter Outlook Web Bureau 2021-03-02T17:20:59+05:30 Manipur Journalist Paojel Chaoba First To Be Sent Notice Under New Digital Media Rules outlookindia.com 2021-03-02T19:15:11+05:30
Paojel Chaoba, a journalist from Manipur, has reportedly been sent a notice by the state under the newly introduced Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021. The notice has been sent to the journalist over a discussion he participated in for his organisation, The Frontier Manipur (TFM).