Summary: Information Technology Rules 2021, and Intermediaries and social media platforms
February 25, 2021 *Update (February 26): This post has been updated to represent the final version of the Rules that were notified on Thursday evening. The government has stuck to its stance of traceability on internet platforms. The Information Technology (Guidelines For Intermediaries And Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021 propose to make it mandatory for social media intermediaries to enable identification of the originator of a particular message or post. This ostensibly challenges end-to-end encryption on messaging platforms such as WhatsApp and Signal, and hence raises concerns ar...
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