The draft of the Digital India Act might be firmed up after two extra rounds of dialogue (File)

New Delhi:

Rajeev Chandrasekhar, the Minister of State for Electronics and IT, on Thursday stated the federal government is reviewing ‘secure harbour’ clause within the proposed Digital India Bill that’s set to switch IT Act, 2000, reported the Hindu.

The provision in IT Act, 2000 absolves social media companies of legal responsibility for posts made by customers.

The secure harbour safety is “earned” topic to platform doing its bit to maintain web secure and trusted by ensuring that the content material that’s flagged as inflicting consumer hurt is not hosted on it.

“From the 2000s onward, platforms for which safe harbour was applied as a concept, have now morphed into multiple types of participants and platforms on the internet, functionally very different from each other, and requiring different types of guardrails and regulatory requirements,” the national daily quoted the minister as saying.

“The draft of the Digital India Act will be firmed up after two more rounds of discussion,” Mr Chandrasekhar stated throughout a session with the stakeholders.

The draft invoice is prone to be issued in April and will probably be adopted up with extra rounds of public session for about 45-60 days earlier than being positioned in Parliament for ultimate approval, officers stated.