new IT rules 2021

Senior Advocate Sajan Poovayya appearing on behalf of Twitter India informed that Twitter has made permanent appointments to the post of Chief Compliance Officer, Resident Grievance Officer and Nodal Contact Person as mandated by the IT Rules 2021.

WhatsApp on Friday informed the Delhi High Court that it has decided not to enforce the new privacy policy till the Personal Data Protection Bill, 2019 comes into effect. WhatsApp also said it won't enforce new privacy policy till data protection bill comes into force.

Twitter India's head approached Karnataka High Court seeking anticipatory bail in connection with the tweets about the assault of an elderly man Abdul Samad who was thrashed and forced to chant "Jai Sri Ram" and "Vande Mataram".

The Delhi High Court has recently issued a notice in a plea seeking directions to remove certain objectionable content related to “Hindu Gods from the social media platform “Instagram” which is owned by Facebook.

WhatsApp has filed a lawsuit against the Government of India in Delhi High Court seeking to block regulations of recently imposed IT rules that would require messaging service to trace the origin of a particular message sent on the service. The deadline to implement the new rules ended yesterday.