Rules for invasive gadgets likely under Digital India Act, says MoS IT

In the past, the government has cautioned social media platforms that they could lose safe harbours for not complying with Indian laws

The government on Thursday had its first consultation with industry stakeholders, policy advocates and legal experts on the broad principles of the Digital India Act (DIA), with the definition of internet intermediaries and their safe harbours among the top subjects of discussion.

Minister of State for Electronics and IT Rajeev Chandrasekhar said that in the 2000s, there were few types of intermediaries and they had safe harbours, but now they have morphed into multiple types of platforms that are functionally very different from each other. These, he said, required “very different types of guard rails and regulations”.

Chandrasekhar also discussed rules to