![\"<p>(File](\"\/\/www.iser-br.com\/Themes\/Release\/images\/responsive\/ettelecom-default.jpg\")
New Delhi: Explosive confrontations and standoffs between social media<\/a> giants and the government marked a stormy start to 2021, and the coming year promises to be just as action-packed as India brings in legislation to protect personal data, enforces tighter checks on digital platforms and regulates cross border transfer of information.
The year began on a turbulent note for social media platforms when the government asked Twitter<\/a> to block tweets and handles in connection with the farmers' agitation over agricultural laws, which have now been repealed. Twitter had complied, only to restore the accounts later, leading to a massive standoff between the microblogging platform and the government.
Matters only got worse for the microblogging platform as the government issued more notices in the following weeks to Twitter to take down accounts that were allegedly spreading misinformation and provocative content around farmers' protests. It withheld access to accounts of certain prominent personalities like Punjabi singer JazzyB, hip-hop artist L-Fresh the Lion and others in response to a legal demand in India.
Twitter went on an offensive and flagged concerns around the safety of its staff in the country. It alleged intimidation by the police after its office premises were searched by the Delhi police in May.
The government questioned Twitter's \"differential treatment\" in case of the US Capitol Hill siege, where it had taken prompt action and asked the platform to take swift action against \"well-coordinated\" campaigns being run around the farmers' protests.
Social media companies<\/a> were under the lens globally too for hate speech, misinformation and fake news on their platforms. India, on several occasions, has emphasised that while it fully supports foreign and Indian companies in leveraging the internet<\/a> as a \"force of good\", it will take all measures to ensure that the internet remains open and is not dominated by big companies.
And this was evident when the Centre introduced stringent rules for social media and OTT platforms in February to make them more accountable to end-users in one of the world's largest internet markets.
The rules required social media companies to take down contentious content quicker, appoint grievance redressal officers and assist in investigations. Significant social media intermediaries -- those with more than 50 lakh users -- have to follow additional due diligence, including appointment of chief compliance officer, a nodal contact person and a resident grievance officer and all the three officials will have to be residents in India.
The rules were controversial from the very start as platforms voiced concerns over traceability mandate and short timeline for appointment of the key officials.
While platforms like Facebook<\/a> (now Meta) and Google<\/a> complied with the rules by the May 26 deadline, Twitter -- even after the expiry of the additional time -- did not appoint the requisite officers, leading to it losing the 'safe harbour' immunity.
Non-compliance with rules would result in these social media companies losing their intermediary status that provides them exemptions from liabilities for any third-party information and data hosted by them.
Twitter -- which has had several run-ins with the government this year including marking of posts by BJP leaders as manipulated media -- found itself in murky waters after displaying a distorted map of India that showed Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh as a separate country. The glaring distortions added to a massive backlash from social media users.
In June, Twitter -- which has over 1.75 crore users in India -- courted controversy yet again when it temporarily blocked then IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad<\/a>'s account for alleged violation of the US Copyright Act, a move Prasad slammed as being arbitrary and gross violation of IT rules. Matters only aggravated after the verified blue badge was removed from many accounts, including the personal account of Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu.
\"We value the open lines of communication with the Government of India and share a commitment to work together towards building a digitally inclusive, safe and Open Internet that encourages public conversation,\" a Twitter spokesperson said.
The spokesperson added that India is a priority market for Twitter -- one that it is deeply committed to -- and that it will continue to step up the level of proactive enforcement across the service and invest in technological solutions to tackle abuse and ever-evolving malicious online behaviour.
In November, Twitter Co-Founder and CEO Jack Dorsey<\/a> announced that Parag Agrawal would succeed him in the top role. The India-born executive -- who served as Twitter's Chief Technology Officer since 2017 -- will have to navigate the regulatory challenges across markets and scale up user base and revenue.
Big tech companies globally are also facing greater scrutiny from regulators.
In India, the Competition Commission of India (CCI) is probing whether Google has adopted anti-competitive, unfair and restrictive trade practices in relation to Android operating system. In September, Google moved the Delhi High Court against the alleged leak of CCI's confidential report pertaining to the investigation against the tech giant.
2021 was also a remarkable year for homegrown platforms like Koo amid growing calls for expanding the ecosystem of homegrown digital platforms.
WhatsApp<\/a> also had its share of troubles in 2021, starting with the controversy around its privacy policy update, including how it processes user data and partners with Facebook to offer integrations across the social media giant's products.
The messaging app -- which has 53 crore users in India as per the government data -- had faced severe backlash in the country over user concerns that data was being shared with parent company, Facebook (now Meta). Later, the company said its updated privacy policy was put on hold till data protection law comes into force in India.
WhatsApp had also moved the Delhi High Court, challenging the new social media rules arguing that the traceability provision is unconstitutional and against people's fundamental right to privacy as underlined by the Supreme Court decision.
During the year, a row had erupted over Israeli spyware Pegasus allegedly being used for targeted surveillance in India. In October, the Supreme Court set up a three-member independent expert panel to probe the alleged use of the spyware for targeted surveillance in India.
Facebook -- which rebranded the parent firm as Meta in October -- also faced allegations that its system fuelled hate speech and fake news after Frances Haugen, an employee of the Facebook integrity team until May 2021, leaked tens of thousands of internal documents.
In July, there was a change of guard with bureaucrat-turned-politician Ashwini Vaishnaw taking charge of the IT, electronics and communication ministry. Rajeev Chandrasekhar<\/a> was named MoS in the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology.
In November, MeitY released a set of Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) on the new social media and intermediary guidelines to bring more clarity and explain the legislation, and promised that the Standard Operating Procedures will follow soon. The SOPs around the IT rules and intermediary norms will have details of the appropriate agencies which will have the authority to issue takedown notices to platforms.
As the year drew to a close, a parliamentary panel submitted its report, recommending widening of the scope of proposed data protection legislation to include both personal and non-personal data with \"a single administration and regulatory body\". It has also recommended tougher norms to regulate social media platforms by holding them accountable for the content they host, while asserting that it is imperative to store data in India and restrict access to it by categorising it as sensitive and critical personal data.
Industry representatives have raised concerns on certain recommendations, including those around inclusion of non-personal data and expanded data localisation mandates, stating that these will harm people's rights and impact businesses.
\"The most worrying aspect of the changes is that the government has been given complete power over the Data Protection Authority, in terms of issuing directions to the authority. This will undermine the DPA and their ability to hold the government accountable for violations,\" digital policy expert Nikhil Pahwa said.
The regulatory framework will continue to evolve, be defined and tightened for digital and data-driven companies through 2022, with passage of data protection bill in Parliament in the coming months.
And for social media companies in particular, their 'timelines' will be viewed through 'filters' of data privacy, user safety and compliance, in letter and spirit to India's new digital rules. PTI SR MBI RAM<\/body>","next_sibling":[{"msid":88613263,"title":"Removed 61,114 content pieces in Nov in India: Google compliance report","entity_type":"ARTICLE","link":"\/news\/removed-61114-content-pieces-in-nov-in-india-google-compliance-report\/88613263","category_name":null,"category_name_seo":"telecomnews"}],"related_content":[],"seoschemas":false,"msid":88613302,"entity_type":"ARTICLE","title":"2021 brings new norms for social media cos to 'follow'; firms 'share' concerns but 'subscribe'","synopsis":"Twitter went on an offensive and flagged concerns around the safety of its staff in the country. It alleged intimidation by the police after its office premises were searched by the Delhi police in May.","titleseo":"telecomnews\/2021-brings-new-norms-for-social-media-cos-to-follow-firms-share-concerns-but-subscribe","status":"ACTIVE","authors":[],"analytics":{"comments":0,"views":227,"shares":0,"engagementtimems":1071000},"Alttitle":{"minfo":""},"artag":"PTI","artdate":"2021-12-31 15:22:15","lastupd":"2021-12-31 15:25:21","breadcrumbTags":["Twitter","social media","rajeev chandrasekhar","WhatsApp","Facebook","Internet","social media companies","Google","jack dorsey","ravi shankar prasad"],"secinfo":{"seolocation":"telecomnews\/2021-brings-new-norms-for-social-media-cos-to-follow-firms-share-concerns-but-subscribe"}}" data-authors="[" "]" data-category-name="" data-category_id="" data-date="2021-12-31" data-index="article_1">
- Telecom乐动扑克News
- 7分钟阅读
2021年带来了新的规范社交媒体因为“跟随”;公司股票的担忧,但“订阅”
Twitter继续进攻和标记问题在员工的安全。后被警察涉嫌恐吓其办公场所德里警方搜查了。
读到
新德里:爆炸性的冲突和对峙社交媒体巨人和政府标志着暴风雨开始到2021年,和新年来临之际,印度承诺一样动作带来了立法保护个人数据,在数字平台上实施更严格的检查和监管跨境转移的信息。
今年开始在一个动荡的注意当政府要求社会媒体平台推特阻止tweet并处理与农民的风潮在农业法律已经被废除了。Twitter已经履行,只有恢复账户后,导致大量的微博平台和政府之间的对峙。
只有更糟的是微博平台的重要政府发行更多的注意在接下来的几周Twitter账户,据称,传播错误信息和煽动性的内容围绕农民的抗议。它拒绝访问账户的某些突出的个性和旁遮普语歌手JazzyB一样,嘻哈艺术家L-Fresh狮子和其他应对印度的法律需求。
Twitter继续进攻和标记问题在员工的安全。后被警察涉嫌恐吓其办公场所德里警方搜查了。
政府质疑Twitter的“差别待遇”在美国国会山围困的情况下,它已采取迅速的行动,要求平台迅速采取行动反对“协调”活动在农民的抗议活动。
社交媒体公司受到全球镜头太仇恨言论,误导和虚假新闻平台。乐动扑克印度,在多个场合强调,虽然它完全支持外国和印度企业在利用互联网作为一个“好”的力量,它将采取一切措施以确保互联网仍然是开放的,不占主导地位的大公司。
这是显而易见的,当社会媒体中心引入了严格的规则和奥特平台让他们更加负责2月最终用户在世界上最大的互联网市场之一。
规则要求社交媒体公司快速记下有争议的内容,指定不满修正军官和协助调查。重要的社交媒体中介——那些拥有超过50个十万的用户必须遵循附加的尽职调查,包括任命首席合规官,一个节点接触的人,一个居民不满官和所有的三名官员必须在印度居民。
规则是有争议的从一开始就为平台表示担忧的可追溯性授权和短时间重要官员的任命。
而平台脸谱网(现在元)谷歌遵守规则,5月26日的最后期限,Twitter——即使在额外的时间期满没有任命的官员,导致它失去了“安全港”的免疫力。
不符合规则会导致这些社交媒体公司失去的中间状态,为任何第三方提供他们免除债务主持的信息和数据。
Twitter——有几个与政府今年包括标记文章的人民党领导人操纵媒体,发现自己在黑暗水域后显示一个扭曲的地图显示查谟和克什米尔和印度拉达克作为一个独立的国家。明显的扭曲添加到一个巨大的社会媒体用户的强烈不满。
今年6月,Twitter——已超过1.75印度卢比的用户再次引发争议时暂时封锁了部长Ravi Shankar普拉萨德的账户涉嫌违反美国版权法案,此举Prasad抨击是任意的,严重违反规则。问题只有加重后验证蓝色徽章被从许多账户,包括副总统M Venkaiah Naidu的个人账户。
“我们的价值与印度政府公开的交流和分享承诺一起工作来建立一个数字包容、安全、开放的互联网,鼓励公众对话,“Twitter发言人表示。
发言人补充说,印度是一个优先级市场推特——一个致力于——它将继续加大主动执法的水平在整个服务和投资技术解决方案来解决虐待和不断发展的网络恶意行为。
去年11月,Twitter联合创始人兼首席执行官Jack Dorsey宣布Parag Agrawal将接替他的角色。India-born执行官——自2017年以来担任Twitter的首席技术官,将不得不在监管方面的挑战在市场和扩大用户基础和收入。
大型科技公司在全球范围内也面临来自监管机构更严格的审查。
在印度,印度的竞争委员会(CCI)正在调查谷歌是否采用了反竞争,不公平和限制贸易行为与Android操作系统。今年9月,谷歌移动德里高等法院对涉嫌泄露CCI的机密报告与调查科技巨头。
2021年也是一个非凡的国产平台古永锵在不断要求扩大国产数字平台的生态系统。
WhatsApp还的麻烦,2021年开始争论围绕其隐私政策更新,包括如何处理用户数据与Facebook和合作伙伴提供集成在社交媒体巨头的产品。
消息传递应用程序——53在印度卢比的用户根据政府数据,在国家面临严重的反弹在用户担心数据被与母公司,Facebook现在(元)。之后,该公司表示其隐私政策更新搁置到印度的数据保护法律生效。
WhatsApp也搬到德里高等法院,挑战新的社交媒体规则认为可追溯性规定是违宪的,对人民基本隐私权所强调的最高法院的决定。
年内,连续爆发了以色列间谍飞马据称被用于在印度有针对性的监测。10月,最高法院设立了一个三人独立的专家小组来调查所谓的间谍软件的使用有针对性的监测在印度。
Facebook——为母公司10月元——也面临指控,其系统助长了仇恨言论和假新闻Frances Haugen之后,Facebook完整团队的一名员工,直到2021年5月,泄露数以万计的内部文件。乐动扑克
今年7月,有改变警卫队bureaucrat-turned-politician Ashwini Vaishnaw负责的,电子和通信部门。拉杰夫钱德拉塞卡被任命为金属氧化物半导体的电子和信息技术。
11月,MeitY发布一组常见问题(faq)在新社交媒体和中介指导方针,带来更多的澄清和解释立法,并承诺标准操作程序很快就会跟随。周围的安抚它的规则和中介规范细节将适当的机构将有权uk通知平台。
年接近尾声,一个议会委员会提交报告,建议扩大提出了数据保护立法的范围包括个人和非个人数据与“一个管理和监督管理机构”。它也推荐更严格的规范管理社会媒体平台,负责内容主机,而声称必须存储数据在印度和限制对它的访问将它归类为敏感和关键的个人数据。
行业代表担心某些建议,包括周围的包含非个人数据和扩展数据本地化要求,陈述这些会伤害人们的权利和影响企业。
“最令人担忧的是政府方面的变化已完成对数据保护机构,发行方向的权威。这将破坏DPA和他们政府对违规行为负责的能力,“数字政策专家Nikhil Pahwa说。
监管框架将继续发展,定义和加强对数字和数据驱动的公司到2022年,与数据保护法案的通过国会在未来几个月。
尤其是社交媒体公司,他们的“时间线”将从“过滤器”的数据隐私,用户安全与合规,印度新的数字字母和精神的规则。PTI SR MBI RAM
评论
现在评论 阅读评论(1)所有评论
找到这个评论进攻?
下面选择你的理由并单击submit按钮。这将提醒我们的版主采取行动