Government Moves to Access and Trace all ‘Unlawful’ Content Online

Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) on December 21, 2018 has discussed a draft of The Information Technology [Intermediaries Guidelines (Amendment) Rules] 2018, according to which social media platforms will soon have to end the complete encryption system and remove any “unlawful content” for the sake of the country’s security.

• The five-page draft rules were discussed Meit with others from the Cyber Law Division, and representatives of Google, Facebook, WhatsApp, Amazon, Yahoo, Twitter, ShareChat, SEBI and The Internet Service Providers Association of India.

New Amendment Proposed

• Tracking and Removal of Unlawful Content: The proposed amendments to rules under Section ....