A day after Union IT minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said that the government will start drafting regulations to address the issue of deepfakes, MoS electronics and technology Rajeev Chandrasekhar said that social media platforms have agreed to align their terms of use with areas that are prohibited on the Indian internet.
What IT minister has to say
The minister said that the government had a meeting with “all of the important players on the Internet, the Internet intermediaries” and raised the issue of deepfakes with them.
“I reminded them that way back from October 2022, the government of India has been alerting them to the threat of misinformation and deepfakes, which are part of misinformation. The intermediaries today all agreed that the current IT rules under the IT Act provide for adequate compliance requirements on their part to deal with deepfake, even as we speak to future regulations and a future law, which is certainly required, given that our IT Act is 23 years old,” Chandrasekhar said.
He also said that the players “agreed that the current law and the current act and the current rules provide for compliance requirements by the platforms on misinformation, patently false information and deepfakes.”
“I have urged them today and have said that we will follow it up with an advisory and a directive that all platforms must align their and transform their terms of use with their users to be consistent with the twelve areas that are prohibited on the Indian Internet and the platforms have agreed in seven days to ensure that harmonisation and that alignment so that every user on every platform is aware that when they use a platform, the platform intends to be a safe and trusted platform,” Chandrasekhar added.
Government to nominate Rule Seven officer
Chandrasekhar also said that the platforms were informed about a Rule Seven officer who will be working to create a platform where citizens will be able to bring to the attention of the government their notice, allegations or reports of violation of law by the platforms.
“The Rule Seven officer will take that digital platform information and respond accordingly. So, we’ll make it very simple for the citizens to report violations of law by platforms to the government,” the minister noted
“As far as harms are concerned, that includes deepfakes and also includes Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM) also includes various other categories of content that are prohibited on the Indian Internet,” he noted.
What IT minister has to say
The minister said that the government had a meeting with “all of the important players on the Internet, the Internet intermediaries” and raised the issue of deepfakes with them.
“I reminded them that way back from October 2022, the government of India has been alerting them to the threat of misinformation and deepfakes, which are part of misinformation. The intermediaries today all agreed that the current IT rules under the IT Act provide for adequate compliance requirements on their part to deal with deepfake, even as we speak to future regulations and a future law, which is certainly required, given that our IT Act is 23 years old,” Chandrasekhar said.
He also said that the players “agreed that the current law and the current act and the current rules provide for compliance requirements by the platforms on misinformation, patently false information and deepfakes.”
“I have urged them today and have said that we will follow it up with an advisory and a directive that all platforms must align their and transform their terms of use with their users to be consistent with the twelve areas that are prohibited on the Indian Internet and the platforms have agreed in seven days to ensure that harmonisation and that alignment so that every user on every platform is aware that when they use a platform, the platform intends to be a safe and trusted platform,” Chandrasekhar added.
Government to nominate Rule Seven officer
Chandrasekhar also said that the platforms were informed about a Rule Seven officer who will be working to create a platform where citizens will be able to bring to the attention of the government their notice, allegations or reports of violation of law by the platforms.
“The Rule Seven officer will take that digital platform information and respond accordingly. So, we’ll make it very simple for the citizens to report violations of law by platforms to the government,” the minister noted
“As far as harms are concerned, that includes deepfakes and also includes Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM) also includes various other categories of content that are prohibited on the Indian Internet,” he noted.
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