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Latest Updates on Privacy - June 2022 - Part I

Latest Updates on Privacy – June 2022 – Part I

This is a rundown of last week's updates on Privacy: Changes proposed to IT Rules 2021 allowing overriding of social media accounts A draft seeking amendments to the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021 has been proposed by the Central Government. The draft imposes a greater burden on social media companies to set up a vigil mechanism and ensure its compliance while dealing with illegal and inflammatory content. A Grievance Addressal Committee (GAC) is also proposed…

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Latest Updates in Privacy - May 2022

Latest Updates on Privacy – May 2022

This is a rundown of last week’s news updates on Privacy: New CERT-In Directives issued The Indian Computer Emergency Response Team has recently issued new guidelines trying to combat cyber security incidents, with 6,07,220 incidents being reported in the first half of 2021. The directions prescribe mandatory data collection, retention and integration by data centers, virtual private network providers, cloud services providers and others. However, directions for the registration of data centres, virtual private server providers, and virtual private network providers…

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