Rewiring India’s Internet: how the government is solving a problem by creating more difficult ones
Synopsis
The path India is taking to exert management over Internet companies is fraught with worrying implications for knowledge safety and cybersecurity. A set of latest rules drastically will increase the mandates on Internet intermediaries normally, creates a class-based regulatory system for them, requires retention of person knowledge, impacts encryption, and imposes unprecedented guidelines on information websites and curated video-streaming websites.
The new subordinate guidelines issued by the Government of India final week underneath the Information Technology Act are a sophisticated package deal to unravel. Their unique objective was to fill in a particular space which the Indian parliament had delegated to the government when it amended the Information Technology Act in 2008. The space is the due diligence that Internet intermediaries need to fulfill to make use of the safe-harbour provision — it gives certified
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