Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology

The transfer petition has been filed in Supreme Court by the Centre in the wake of pending matters before various High Courts across the Country challenging its new IT Rules.

Ld. ASG Mr. Sharma appearing on behalf of the center submitted in Delhi High Court that the said IT Rules were notified on Feb 25’ 2021 and that Twitter is in clear breach of the said IT Rules 2021.

Twitter admittedly qualifies as a significant Social Media Intermediary (“SSMI”) as defined under Rule 2(1) (v) of the IT Rules 2021 hence Twitter is obligated to comply with the provisions of the IT Rules, 2021 and the compliances set out therein

The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology in its counter-affidavit sought direction from the Delhi High Court restraining WhatsApp from implementing its new privacy policy and terms of service dated January 4.

New Delhi (ILNS): The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology today issued a press release which states that the Ministry under section 69A of the Information Technology Act has blocked access to 49 mobile Apps.

The ministry statement said: “The names of all those associated with the development of the App and management of the App ecosystem at various stages was shared when the code was released in Open/Public Domain and the same was shared widely in media also.”

The Delhi High Court has directed the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) to look into the complaint of a petitioner alleging that a photograph of his deceased wife is being wrongly circulated on social media platforms depicting her as the Hathras tragedy victim.

The number of Chinese apps banned in India has gone up to 118. Among those banned is the popular gaming app PUBG. In July the government had banned 59 apps, including another popular app, TikTok.

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