The government is interested in balancing the issues of privacy as well as the interest of safety and trust and “mandatory verification” of social media platforms falls at the intersection of the two, Minister of State for IT Rajeev Chanderashekar said on Wednesday.
During the question hour in the Lok Sabha, the Minister said there is no law or rule that allows for mandatory verification of users who use the social media platforms. However, the IT rules that were promulgated in February, 2021 “very effectively cast an obligation on the intermediaries to be able to detect and identify the first originator of any criminal activity”.
