Author Archives: Vijayashankar Na

(This is in continuation of the previous articles on this subject) Consequent to the issue of the Intermediary Guidelines of April 6, 2023, there would be a new requirement related to the compliance of ITA 2000/8. While some activists continue … Continue reading →

Yesterday, Mr Rajeev Chandrashekar announced an amendment to Intermediary rules under section 79 of ITA 2000 regarding curbing of Fake news on the Internet. The proposal suggested that a “Fact Checking Agency” would be set up to assist the identification … Continue reading →

The Government of India has now come out with a new version of the InformationTechnology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021 which was first notified on 25th February 2021. On 28th October 2022, there was an amendment … Continue reading →

The Intermediary Guidelines covering the Gaming Intermediaries which had been released for public comments has now been notified. This will be an amendment to the Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media EThics Code of 25th February 2021. Copy of the guidelines … Continue reading →

This is a continuation of the previous article “The Great Data Robbery in India…64 crore data sets…weaponized for the next election…” We have seen many data breaches from Hospitals. Banks, Payment Gateways etc. Most of these are targeted at financial … Continue reading →