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The number of complaints received by Google from Indian users for various categories. The complaints further includes the violation of intellectual property rights and infringement of local laws prohibiting types of content on grounds such as condemnation.
The microblogging site also argued that the law only allows the blocking of a particular tweet, and not an entire account simply because of political criticism unless there was evidence of a repeated offence.
The microblogging platform said that there should be statutory safeguards if the governments wants it to remove user accounts, instead of individual posts.
Earlier, Peiter Zatko alleged that the company knowingly allowed India to add agents to the roster, possibly giving the government access to sensitive data.
During an event organised by the US-India Business Council (USIBC), the minister said,