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Parliamentary panel holds meet with FB, Google over prevention of misuse o
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 29 (ANI): Senior officials from Facebook and Google appeared before the Parliamentary Standing Committee for Information and Technology (IT) on Tuesday to put forth their views on 'safeguarding citizens rights and prevention of misuse of social and online news medi
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Parliamentary panel turns down Facebook's call for virtual appearance; say
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 19 (ANI): The parliamentary Standing Committee on Information Technology headed by Congress MP Shashi Tharoor on Saturday turned down social media giant Facebook's request for coming for a virtual meeting instead of physical representation citing the company's COVID p
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Parliamentary committee summons Twitter on June 18
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 15 (ANI): After a fresh tussle with the Centre over new IT rules, Twitter has now been summoned by the Parliamentary Standing Committee for Information and Technology.
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Odisha IT Minister expresses concern over exclusion of Odia language from
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Bhubaneswar (Odisha) [India], June 12 (ANI): Odisha's Minister of Electronics, Information and Technology Tusharkanti Behera expressed concern over the omission of the local language 'Odia' in the Union Ministry of Education's 'Swayam online education portal'.
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Govt serves final notice to Twitter over non-compliance of new IT rules
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 5 (ANI): Citing non-compliance of New Intermediary Guideline Rules by Twitter, the Union Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) on Saturday sent a final communication to Twitter asking them to comply immediately with the requirements of the new
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'Stop beating around the bush and comply,' MeitY tells Twitter
Updated : 4 years, 12 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 28 (ANI): After Twitter raised concerns about "potential threat to freedom of expression" over the new IT rules, the Ministry of Electronics and IT (MeitY) has asked the microblogging company to "stop beating around the bush" and "comply with the laws of the land".<
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Parliamentary panel questions legality of new guidelines for OTT, social m
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], March 16 (ANI): The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Information and Technology (IT) on Monday headed by Congress leader and Loksabha MP Shashi Tharoor questioned the legality of new rules framed by the government to regulate OTT (Over the top) and social media platform
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SC refuses to pass order on plea seeking probe into China's alleged survei
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], February 3 (ANI): The Supreme Court on Wednesday refused to pass any order on a plea seeking directions to the Central government to investigate China's alleged surveillance on the President of India, Prime Minister, judges (sitting and retired) of the apex court and Hi
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Twitter, Facebook brief Parliamentary panel over safeguarding citizens' ri
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], January 22 (ANI): The representatives of social media companies - Twitter and Facebook - appeared before parliamentary standing committee for Information and Technology (IT) in connection with "safeguarding citizens' rights and prevention of misuse of social/online news me
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Google, Facebook, Twitter threaten to leave Pakistan over new social media
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], November 22 (ANI): With Pakistan government announcing new "draconian" rules for social media, which aims at giving blanket power to authorities to censor digital content, Information and Technology giants like Facebook, Google and Twitter have threatened to leave the c
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Facebook row: BJP MP urges all NDA MPs in Parliamentary panel to write to
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Aug 18 (ANI): A BJP MP and member of Parliamentary Standing Committee for Information and Technology (I&T) urged all NDA MPs in the Committee to write a letter to Lok Sabha speaker Om Birla against its chairman Shashi Tharoor in connection with summoning Facebook witho
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Government bans 59 apps including Tik Tok, UC Browser
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 29 (ANI): The government on Monday banned 59 mobile apps including Tik Tok, UC Browser and other Chinese apps "prejudicial to sovereignty and integrity and defence" of the country and "security of state and public order".
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