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Meta's concerns come after calls from India's top IT brass to do away with safe harbour protections in India's upcoming Digital India Act
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Meta's concerns come after calls from India's top IT brass to do away with safe harbour protections in India's upcoming Digital India Act
MeitY's focus on the principles-based approach of the Act during the first half of the event left many other questions unanswered.
Experts discuss platform regulation in the Digital India Act and debate the need for differentiated safe harbour provisions.
Sukanya Thapliyal, Project Officer at the Centre for Communications Governance, believes that speech-based offences must not be criminalised
According to Chandrasekhar, the DIA will have a separate chapter on guardrails for emerging technologies like Artificial Intelligence.
Nikhil Pahwa posed a question on personal criminal liability imposed upon companies and if it needs to be addressed in the Digital India Act
The Minister said the government does not plan to “hard code all the do's and don'ts that are expected” on emerging technologies
Experts debate how the Digital India Act can regulate India’s content marketplace, without compromising on the govt’s constitutional responsibility of protecting fundamental rights.
Removing the safe harbour provision will shift the onus of protecting consumers' rights onto online platforms rather than the government itself.
Experts emphasised the importance of privacy safeguards, procedural clarity, and reasonability to make sure strengthening law enforcement does not compromise the rights of individuals...