Internet and Mobile Association of India(IAMAI) has released a report titled \u201cIT Rules, 2021: A Regulatory Impact As\u00adsessment Study\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n The study assessed rules prescribed under the <\/span>In\u00adformation Technology (Inter\u00admediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Codes) Rules,2021.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n Originator Traceability provision<\/b>: This provision was \u201ctechnically infeasible\u201d as implementing it on end-to-end encrypted platforms would break the encryption technology itself. Hence, they have recommended the removal of this provision.<\/span><\/p>\n Threshold of SSMI:<\/b> According to rules, intermediaries having 5 million users are considered as significant social media intermediaries(SSMI). The report observed that the figure is too minuscule for a country with a population of 1.3 billion.<\/span><\/p>\n Data Retention: <\/b>Experts have highlighted the inconsistency of the data retention mandate. Hence, they have suggested a 90+90 days approach where the intermediaries might store data for the original 90 days and would retain it after that only if needed.<\/span><\/p>\n Content Takedown<\/b>: The singular timeline for the takedown of all grades of harmful content is burdensome. Hence, the study has recommended the creation of a risk-based content gradation mechanism to provide specific timelines for different grades of harmful content<\/span><\/p>\n SOPs on information assistance requests by LEAs:<\/b> The majority of respondents from all stakeholder groups mentioned the need for clear Standard Operating Procedures to delineate the process and format of information requests by law enforcement officials.<\/span><\/p>\n Source: <\/b>The post is based on the article <\/span>\u201cNew IT rules likely to impact ease of business in India, says report\u201d <\/b>published in <\/span>Business Standard <\/b>on 5th July 2022.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What is the News? Internet and Mobile Association of India(IAMAI) has released a report titled \u201cIT Rules, 2021: A Regulatory Impact As\u00adsessment Study\u201d. What is the purpose of the study? The study assessed rules prescribed under the In\u00adformation Technology (Inter\u00admediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Codes) Rules,2021. What are the key observations made by the… Continue reading New IT rules likely to impact ease of business in India, says report<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,1738,9],"tags":[10503],"class_list":["post-194209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-science-and-technology-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-business-standard","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}What is the purpose of the study?<\/b><\/h5>\n
What are the key observations made by the report?<\/b><\/h5>\n