New Delhi: Creating regulatory-based accountability culture among the large digital platforms is important to ensure that the internet remains open and safe for all users, the State Minister for Electronics and Rajeev Chandrasekhar said on Monday.
India emerged as a large internet economy with 80 Indian Crore Online, numbers expected to reach 120 crores, he said.
According to him, the Internet encourages the digital economy and the law and the surrounding rules will be “measured, consultative and sees the future”.
“The internet for all good things represent the ability to provide good governance, the ability of the last person in democracy to reach the government …
but also represents significant growth in the things we call the damage to users and criminality and to overcome …
Grow good, and poor addresses in a transparent and effective way, “he said.
Releasing the FAQ on broker guidelines, Chandrasekhar said that when cyberspace evolved, as well as the nature of “good and bad” in cyberspace.
Government policy making is intended to ensure that the interest of users is protected through a larger platform accountability, he added.
“The internet must always remain open …
Openness means less than not only the influence of the country and the government but also free of the influence of the dominant technology and one way to normalize which will create among larger platforms, accountability-based rules culture They, “he said.
Accountability and Openess are important attributes of cyberspace, he said, adding that in India, the largest internet stakeholders are millions of Indians who use it.
Cyberspace “is not possible, should not and will not be” space where the law does not reach, he asserts.
On the requirements for messaging platforms to track the originator of messages where needed and concerns related to the privacy followed, the minister explained that the government’s view of the first originator is that when crime occurs online, the source of crime must be traced, supported by legal commands.
“We believe there is a method without having to approach encryption or decryption remotely which can cause the platform to detect who comes from crime.
That is what is not as the first candidate,” he explained.
The government has made its position quite clear that Cyberspace “cannot be a place where crime finds protection”, it shows.
On whether the message and telegram application signals are in accordance with IT rules, the minister says the ministry does not operate on a significant social media intermediary inventory or intermediary per se, and the internal intervention in which complaints are left unprotted.
“When a user reports back to the ministry they have filed a complaint with a particular platform and the platform does not respond, then there is room for us to intervene, and explore what situation,” he said.
He noted that the ministry considered himself a guardian of Article 14, 19, 21, and would “vigorously” ensure that the right to privacy, the right to non-discrimination and the right to freedom of speech, protected.
On the allegations of Whistleblower recently that the Facebook system triggered a speech of hatred and wrong information, the minister said he had previously talked too much about the need for algorithmic accountability.
“Will it find a place in new regulations or digital law …
but this is an area that we must discuss publicly, discuss between industry, users to develop road maps …
algorithms that violate Article 14, 19, 21 of each Citizens are still violations and our main jobs are to protect the right to freedom of speech, privacy rights and rights to non-discrimination, online as the government is offline, “he said.
In the case of any intermediary algorithm or behavior in the way the user’s rights, he said it was a problem for the government or law to deal with “if not today in the future”.
Said that he refused to bring litigation into the relationship between policy makers and intermediaries except “very important”, the minister said the government was committed to growing Internet space.
The internet must always be open, safe: MOS
