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Sanjay Kanojia/AFP The Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021 (the “Intermediary Rules”) fundamentally change the way the internet will be experienced in India. We provide you with an overview of its contents, the “safeguards” it seeks to establish, how they affect your internet usage experience, and your fundamental rights. Most notably, the Rules now will bring government control rather than regulation over digital news platforms and OTT video content providers. Several requirements under them suffer from unconstitutionality an...

India News: NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court will no longer use WhatsApp groups to share video conference links for court hearings, the apex court registry said on Sa.

URL copied Supreme Court to stop use of WhatsApp groups to share video conference links for hearings The Supreme Court will no longer use WhatsApp groups to share video conference links for court hearings, the apex court registry said on Saturday. In a circular, the registry said that instead of WhatsApp, the links for virtual court hearings in the apex court will be shared on registered email ids and registered mobile numbers of the concerned advocates-on-record and party-in-person.  The step was taken in the wake of the newly notified Information Technology (Guidelines for i...

Platforms will be required to provide information, including related to verification of identity, to lawfully authorised agencies within 72 hours

Highlights Union Ministers Ravi Shankar Prasad and Prakash Javadekar announced the new Digital Media Ethics Code. This new document mentions section 87 of the IT Act, 2000 which offers the government powers to make such rules. New Delhi: The government of India will bring the online news media publishers under the same gambit as the traditional media publishers, such as newspapers and news channels. In a press conference, chaired by Ravi Shankar Prasad, Law & Justice, Communications, Electronics & Information Technology Minister of India, and Prakash Javadekar, Minister of Environment, Fores...