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400 Million Social Media Users Are Set to Lose Their Anonymity in India

• https://finance.yahoo.com, Saritha Rai

The requirement comes as governments around the world are trying to hold social media companies more accountable for the content that circulates on their platforms, whether it's fake news, child porn, racist invective or terrorism-related content. India's new guidelines go further than most other countries' by requiring blanket cooperation with government inquiries, no warrant or judicial order required.

India proposed these guidelines in Dec. 2018 and asked for public comment. The Internet and Mobile Association of India, a trade group that counts Facebook Inc., Amazon.com Inc. and Alphabet Inc.'s Google among its members, responded that the requirements "would be a violation of the right to privacy recognized by the Supreme Court."

But the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology is expected to publish the new rules later this month without major changes, according to a government official familiar with the matter.


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