31/05/2021 - S & T

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KEY POINTS

·        The Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021, which threaten to deprive social media platforms.

·        The Rules must be credited for they mandate duties such as removal of non-consensual intimate pictures within 24 hours, publication of compliance reports to increase transparency.

·        To propound the problem at hand, the Information Technology Act, 2000, does not regulate digital media.

·        An intermediary is now supposed to take down content within 36 hours upon receiving orders from the Government.

·        The other infamous flaw is how these Rules undermine the right to privacy by imposing a traceability requirement.

·        These regulations in the absence of a data protection law, coloured in the backdrop of recent data breach affecting a popular pizza delivery chain and also several airlines highlight a lesson left unlearnt.

·        The problem here is that to eliminate fake news, the Rules proceed to hurriedly take down whatever an arbitrary, ill-decisioned, biased authority may deem as “fake news”.

·        The Rules create futile additional operational costs for intermediaries by requiring them to have Indian resident nodal officers, compliance officers and grievance officers.

·        Therefore, not only do these Rules place a barrier on the “marketplace of ideas” but also on the economic market of intermediaries in general by adding redundant financial burdens.

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