New Delhi: Taking Umbrage on Twitter’s decision to block the Account Minister of Information Technology Ravi Shankar Prasad, Secretariat Lok Sabha on Tuesday seek a written explanation from a social media company in two days about the meantime blocking the minister on the platform.
Mission was sent to the Direction of Congressman Shashi Tharoor, who led the Standing Parliament Committee on Information Technology.
On June 25, Twitter has blocked the Prasad account for one hour due to alleged copyright infringement, only to apologize and restore it later.
Prasad said the platform might be annoyed with him for his criticism of Twitter because he did not comply with new social media guidelines.
Separately, the house panel on it met with Facebook and Google representatives and asked about their compliance with Indian legislation guidelines for the digital platform.
The source said Tharoor asked for Facebook, who had WhatsApp, about how they could track the origin of the message if the content was encrypted final.
When the Director of the State Policy Facebook Shivnath Thukul and General Advisor Namrata Singh said it was impossible to break end-to-end encryption, Tharoor was learned to ask how WhatsApp sent a message as “continued many times” and if it could identify.
And the content label as forwarded, it must also have a mechanism to identify where it came from.
Facebook is studied to say the labeling is different from tracking the origin of the message and that it will explain the difference in panels, in writing.
The company also raised concerns over criminal liabilities obtained by compliance officers under the rules of digital media, 2021 and told the panel urging the government to rethink this.
Under the rules, compliance officers can face criminal actions for violations of guidelines related to the content posted on their platform.
Interaction with representatives from Google Inc., on the other hand, seeing the MP BJP Sumalatha Ambareesh question the platform was given labeled Kannada as the “worst” language in India.
For this, the head of government affairs and public policy of Google India, Safe Jain, and Director (legal), Gitanjali Duggal, said this was not a reflection of Google’s view but the content aggregation was available on the platform.
Google also said it plans to introduce, in time, “Quality Filter” to prevent the vicinity of this variety appear.
Digital technology companies also told the committee that despite having access to the metadata collected through the ‘OK Google’ command, other Google platforms do not read individual e-mail or personal messages, or enjoy the privacy invasion.