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    • Digital India Bill likely to be delayed, government may opt for smaller, urgent regulations

      Instead of a comprehensive bill for the entire technology ecosystem, which will require wider consultations, the government is examining if it should it introduce smaller, issue-specific legislations

    • US tech giants eager to engage with new NDA government on pending tech regulations

      Several regulations such as the Digital Personal Data Protection Rules, Digital India Bill, and National Data Governance Framework, will have immense ramifications for Big Tech companies

    • Parliamentary panel criticises govt for delay in bringing DPDP rules, Digital India Bill

      In its report, the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Communications and IT has urged the government to finalise the draft of the DPDP Rules and Digital India Bill, without further delay

    • Govt to notify rules for DPDP Act by January end, says Rajeev Chandrasekhar

      Rajeev Chandrasekhar also said that the much awaited Digital India Act is unlikely to be tabled for legislation before the 2024 general elections

    • OpIndia AI row: Google says Bard's responses don't reflect its perspective

      On November 16, Rajeev Chandrasekhar said that safe harbour protections will not apply to platforms that promote algorithmic or search bias, or whose artificial intelligence models exhibit discriminatory behaviour.

    • Safe harbour will not apply for platforms with algorithmic and AI bias: Rajeev Chandrasekhar

      The safe harbour provision gives internet platforms legal immunity against content shared by users on the platforms and

    • Upcoming Digital India Bill may reinforce TRAI's net neutrality regulations

      The bill may make it mandatory for intermediaries to comply with the Prohibition of Discriminatory Tariffs for Data Services, a piece of regulation that was brought in by TRAI to uphold net neutrality principles in India

    • Digital India Bill: Govt may ban new tech if it poses a risk to users, country

      To stop a developer or a publisher of a new and emerging technology from deploying it despite not getting the necessary clearance, the government is likely to bring in provisions of penalty against both stakeholders, Moneycontrol has learnt

    • Digital India Bill may bring in guardrails against AI algorithms, offer opt-out rights

      The bill may make it mandatory for bodies to explain to citizens the rationale behind a decision taken by an algorithm, and how it arrived at the decision by processing of which particular user data

    • AI framework to promote innovation while prioritising user protection, says Rajeev Chandrasekhar

      “We have already signalled that we will never come in the way of innovation, we will never come in the way of disruption. But, we will have a legislative framework that will have guardrails, around openness, safety and trust and accountability,” he said.

    • Digital India Bill: Govt may remove safe harbour for internet platforms in upcoming law

      Online platforms that are pretending to be dumb intermediaries and allow cybercrime to proliferate will not be tolerated and will be addressed by the new Digital India Act, says Union Minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar

    • Economic Survey 2023: 'Techno-smart regulations' must for widening digital space

      The government is planning to bring in the Digital India Bill, which is expected to replace the more than 20-year-old Information Technology Act

    • Data Governance Policy: Govt may soon begin assembling anonymised datasets, says Rajeev Chandrasekhar

      Minister of State in Electronics and IT Rajeev Chandrasekhar sees application of these databases in governance, including in operating drones for better mapping of physical assets and properties

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