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1 hour ago The Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI), an industry body for technology businesses and startup, has set up a Digital Publishers Content Grievance Council (DPCGC) as a self-regulatory body for streaming platforms. Under the Information Technology Rules 2021, over-the-top (OTT) platforms need to abide by a newly created grievance redressal and oversight mechanism. According to the rules, each OTT platform needs to have an internal grievance department and key personnel to...

Everyone from celebrities to the common public got a big shock when the government announced that social media would be banned.

The government has instructed all digital media entities to furnish information regarding their compliance with the IT Rules 2021, within the next 15 days.

Read more about IT Rules: Legal experts weigh in on reasonable curbs to Right to Privacy on Business Standard. Say the new rules do not pass the test of proportionality to justify breaching a users privacy

New Delhi [India], May 27 (ANI): The Delhi High Court on Thursday adjourned the hearing on a batch of petitions challenging the newly enforced Information Technology Rules, 2021.

Twitter withholds account of actor Sushant Singh and then restores it 3 hours ago Twitter accounts belonging to actor Sushant Singh and iScrew, an anonymous user who posts Gujarat-related COVID-19 information among others, were withheld on Wednesday after it received a legal demand. While Singh’s account was later restored today afternoon, the social media platform has still restricted Indian users’ from accessing @iScrew. In his tweets, Singh (@sushant_says) has been critical of the Prime ...

It was signed by Google, Facebook, Twitter, Microsoft and in June 2020 by TikTok, as well as players in the advertising sector.

4 days ago Twitter India has partnered with Razorpay for the Tipping feature on its platform, the Economic Times reported. Twitter wants to enable users to make payments on its platform, through ‘Twitter Tip Jar’, to non-governmental organisations (NGOs) journalists, freelancers, content creators and other civil-society groups looking to mobilise funds. As scores of Indians got infected by the COVID-19 virus over the last year, with the pace of infections in India breaking global records in...

5 days ago A number of news reports yesterday suggested that because of non-compliance with the Information Technology Rules 2021, platforms such as Twitter, Instagram and Facebook face a ban in the country. The IT Rules come into force for social media platforms today, the 26th of May 2021, exactly 3 months after they were issued. A few points to note: 1. Not just Twitter, Instagram and Facebook: To be classified as a Significant Social Media intermediary, platforms need to have over 5 million...

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