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The Delhi High Court has given Twitter three weeks to demonstrate that its operations comply with intermediary guidelines implemented by India on the 25th May.

The bigger concern for India is not that India is taking a leaf from Brazils playbook, but that its dragging the country backward to the China of 2006. Thats when Beijing was powering up The Great Firewall, a project that would prevent outside information from flowing into the nation and allow authorities to control what was shared internally.

For close to 740 million Indian internet subscribers, it is important they understand that neither WhatsApp nor the govt is completely supportive of their right to privacy. We must expect less from WhatsApp than our govt. WhatsApp is a technology business. Our govt, though, has the primary responsibility of protecting our constitutional rights.

As a public platform, it must stay under close watch and abide by our sovereign laws. But a few intermediary rules are so stiff that they could backfire and hurt India’s larger interests

The petition has sought a direction to Twitter to appoint a resident grievance officer without further delay. It has also sought a direction to the Centre to ensure that the IT rules are complied with.

Whatsapp has filed a petition in the Delhi High Court challenging the new IT rule

Facebook-owned instant messenger WhatsApp, in a petition in Delhi High Court, said that enabling identification of the first originator of information on its platform in India puts end-to-end...

WhatsApp LLC, in its 224-page petition, urged the high court to declare Rule 4(2) of the Intermediary Rules as unconstitutional, ultra vires to the IT Act and illegal.

Submit compliance reports within 15 days, digital platforms told Updated: Updated: They also have to provide a three-tier grievance redressal mechanism to deal with complaints Share Article AAA So far, 60 publishers have written to it saying they have initiated the process of formation of the self regulatory bodies under the rules. Representational Image.   They also have to provide a three-tier grievance redressal mechanism to deal with complaints The Information and Broadcasting Ministry ha...

WhatsApp says that traceability requirements in the Centre's new intermediary rules also have criminal penalties for non-compliance. This means that new IT rules not only forces it to break end-to-end encryption, which was designed to help users keep privacy on the platform, but also makes it easy to charge platforms for non-compliance in the country.