We are a search engine, not a social-media intermediary: Google tells Delhi HC
June 02, 2021
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The global tech giant has filed a plea against a Single Bench order that characterised Google as an SMI
Google LLC, on Wednesday, contended before the Delhi High Court that India’s new IT rules for digital media are not applicable to the company because it is a search engine and not a ‘social-media intermediary’ as classified by the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Ethics Code) Rules, 2021. A Division Bench comprising Chief Justice DN Patel and Justice Jyoti Singh issued notices to the Centre, Delhi Government, Internet Service Providers Association of India, Facebook, and a woman on whose plea a Single Judge Bench had, on April 20, passed the ruling against which Google filed their plea on Wednesday.
Highlights
He argued in court that Google is a search engine, not a social media.
Therefore, the newly launched IT rules don’t apply to it.
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Wednesday (June 2) heard Google’s petition challenging an earlier decision of a single bench that had directed the tech giant to immediately remove a woman’s private image from the search engine.
The woman had alleged that the photographs are being shown on the pornographic website on Google without his permission. She had posted her personal photographs on Facebook and Instagram.
Google had filed a petition to turn the decision in its favour. The double bench of the High Court heard the matter for the first time on June 2, and the next date of hearing is July 27.
On 25 February, the Indian government passed three rules for social networking platforms to regulate the nation’s digital space. However, the definition of a social.
Online child sexual abuse:Industry players ignore govt fiat on partnering IWF
January 03, 2021
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Of over 150 ISPs asked to ally with the Internet Watch Foundation, only Tata Communications has signed up Three years after the government asked internet players to partner with Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) to help prevent access to Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM) online, only one out of over 150 operational Internet Service Providers have signed up.
IWF had approached large service providers like Airtel, Reliance Jio, Vodafone and Tata Telecommunications back in 2017 to try and get them to sign up. “This is something they all, with the exception of Tata Communications, ignored, and the government failed to enforce,” Susie Hargreaves, Chief Executive, IWF, told