Twitter India In Compliance With IT Rules , Says Government
- ByAyushi Ray | August 10, 2021
Twitter India in compliance with IT Rules , says Government. After months of doubt, denial, warnings, and fear Twitter India finally is in compliance with new IT Rules. A lawyer representing the Indian government told the Delhi High Court that Twitter’s recent steps — appointment of chief compliance officer, nodal contact person and resident grievance officer in the country — have made the social network “prima facie” compliant with the new law. India’s new IT rules, which were unveiled in February this year, mandates significant social media firms, among other things, to appoint officials to address on-ground concerns in the country. Facebook and Google complied with this requirement in May, when the proposed rules went into effect in the South Asian market. Twitter, which was facing heat from the Indian government for not blocking some tweets that the Indian government had deemed objectionable, had requested additional few months to comply with the new rules and in the meantime vacated the required roles with temporary staff.
The firm’s slow-efforts to comply with the new IT rules had cost the firm liability protection in the country last month, the Indian government said earlier. Internet services enjoy what is broadly referred to as “safe harbor” protection that say that tech platforms won’t be held liable for the things their users post or share online. The new rules also require significant social media firms operating encrypted messaging services to devise a way to trace originators of messages for special cases. Several firms including Facebook’s WhatsApp and Signal have not complied with this requirement. WhatsApp has sued the Indian government over this requirement.
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