The centre is in the process of sending notices to companies that are yet to comply with the country’s revised Intermediary Guidelines<\/a>, including some encrypted platforms like Signal, top officials told ET. Letters will also be sent to other firms that have not replied to the government's queries on their compliance status following the implementation of the Rules on May 26. 中心将通知发送到公司的过程中,尚未符合该国的修订中介机构的指导方针,包括一些加密平台像信号一样,高级官员告诉ET。信件也将被发送到其他公司没有回答政府查询他们的合规状况后,5月26日实施规则。
Sources in the government said that while end-to-end encrypted platform Telegram has complied with the mandates laid out for significant social media intermediaries by \"appointing necessary\" officials, rival platform \"Signal has not responded\" to the letter sent by the ministry of electronics<\/a> and IT ( Meity<\/a>). Letters seeking confirmation of compliance were sent to all major technology companies in the last week of May, they added.
\"Around 45 days have passed since the Rules came into being, we are corresponding with companies that have not replied or complied,\" said a senior official.
Even as Signal has not responded to the government’s queries, officials said that enquiries have revealed that it is an open source platform. \"They claim that they don’t have any source of revenue and the platform is run by a volunteer network. They do not have any organised company or structure. But, non-compliance cannot be there,\" according to the person cited above.
Meanwhile, WhatsApp<\/a>, the country’s most popular messaging app, has challenged the IT Rules in the Delhi High Court<\/a> by claiming that the mandate to trace the first originator of a message will require it to break its encryption and compromise user privacy.
The petition is yet to come up for hearing.
Apple<\/a> Exempted<\/b>
Officials pointed out that while Apple's iMessage doesn't qualify as a social media intermediary, the company that is best known as the maker of iPhone smartphones has been told to comply with the overall IT Rules. Exemption from compliance with mandates for significant social media intermediaries was provided as the messaging service is only available on Apple iPhones and is not a platform open to everyone, the official said.
Signal and Apple did not respond to ET's request for queries over email.
Subjective Rules<\/b>
Given that the new guidelines define significant social intermediaries as those with over five million users in India, there aren’t too many end-to-end encrypted platforms that are required to furnish proof of compliance. Of these, only Signal is yet to provide the required details, with Telegram having already complied as per official sources. WhatsApp is contesting the matter in court and Apple’s iMessage is not being regarded as a social media platform.
However, industry experts questioned what they regard as certain subjective interpretations in the country’s IT Rules itself.
\"Will end to end messaging encryption be a @Apple only feature in India? Sounds odd, no? Almost like the IT Rules have subjective interpretations rather than clear, consistent legal standards,\" Apar Gupta, executive director of the Internet Freedom Foundation<\/a> said on Twitter<\/a>.
After WhatsApp announced the roll-out of its new privacy policy<\/a> earlier this year, competitors like Signal and Telegram gained traction as users moved to these platforms with mounting fear that WhatsApp could share user information with Facebook<\/a>.
While the company has maintained that only information of business users will be shared, it has been pressured to first defer the policy and delay it till the centre brings in the Privacy Bill.
\"Traceability – tracing first origin – is next to impossible without breaking end-to-end encryption. The alternative that independent experts have proposed, such as securely fingerprinting every block of text and recording the sender in a mega database, is not just challenging in terms of data and performance overheads but has severe privacy implications,\" said Prasanto K Roy, who advises global firms on tech policy. He added that it is especially challenging since India has no privacy laws yet.
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在政府的消息人士表示,尽管端到端加密平台电报已符合规定了重大社交媒体“任命必要”官员的中介机构,竞争对手平台“信号没有回应”发送的信中国电子产品它(Meity)。信寻求确认合规被送往各大科技公司在五月的最后一个星期,他们补充说。
即使信号没有回应政府的查询,官员说,调查显示,它是一个开源平台。“他们声称他们没有任何收入来源,平台是由志愿者网络。他们没有任何公司或组织结构。但是,不能存在违规行为,“根据上面所提到的人。
与此同时,WhatsApp这个国家最受欢迎的消息传递应用程序,在德里高等法院质疑它的规则声称要求跟踪第一个消息的发起者需要打破它的用户隐私加密和妥协。
请愿书还来听。
苹果豁免
官员指出,尽管苹果iMessage并不符合社交媒体中介,最好的公司称为iPhone智能手机制造商已经告诉遵守总体规则。豁免遵守委托重大社交媒体中介提供的通讯服务只能在苹果iphone和不是一个平台对所有人开放,这位官员说。
信号和苹果没有回应等对电子邮件的查询请求。
主观的规则
鉴于新准则重大社会中介机构定义为那些在印度超过五百万个用户,没有太多的端到端加密平台需要提供合规证明。其中,只有信号尚未提供必要的细节,根据官方资料与电报已经履行。WhatsApp争夺物质在法庭上,苹果的iMessage并不被认为是一个社会媒体平台。
然而,业内专家质疑他们眼中某些主观的解释规则本身。
“将端到端消息加密功能@Apple只在印度吗?听起来很奇怪,不是吗?几乎像它有主观的解释,而不是清晰的规则,法律标准一致,”Apar Gupta,执行主任互联网自由基金会上说推特。
后WhatsApp宣布推出其新的隐私政策今年早些时候,竞争对手信号和电报获得牵引等用户与日益担心WhatsApp搬到这些平台可以共享用户信息脸谱网。
而业务用户公司坚称,只有信息的共享,它已经被迫首先延迟政策和延迟到中心带来隐私法案。
“可追溯性-跟踪第一起源是几乎不可能在不破坏的端到端加密。独立专家提出的替代,如安全指纹的每一块文本和记录发送方在大型数据库中,不只是挑战的数据和性能开销,但严重的隐私的影响,”罗伊Prasanto K说,他建议全球科技企业政策。他补充说,这是特别具有挑战性因为印度没有隐私法。
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The centre is in the process of sending notices to companies that are yet to comply with the country’s revised Intermediary Guidelines<\/a>, including some encrypted platforms like Signal, top officials told ET. Letters will also be sent to other firms that have not replied to the government's queries on their compliance status following the implementation of the Rules on May 26.
Sources in the government said that while end-to-end encrypted platform Telegram has complied with the mandates laid out for significant social media intermediaries by \"appointing necessary\" officials, rival platform \"Signal has not responded\" to the letter sent by the ministry of electronics<\/a> and IT ( Meity<\/a>). Letters seeking confirmation of compliance were sent to all major technology companies in the last week of May, they added.
\"Around 45 days have passed since the Rules came into being, we are corresponding with companies that have not replied or complied,\" said a senior official.
Even as Signal has not responded to the government’s queries, officials said that enquiries have revealed that it is an open source platform. \"They claim that they don’t have any source of revenue and the platform is run by a volunteer network. They do not have any organised company or structure. But, non-compliance cannot be there,\" according to the person cited above.
Meanwhile, WhatsApp<\/a>, the country’s most popular messaging app, has challenged the IT Rules in the Delhi High Court<\/a> by claiming that the mandate to trace the first originator of a message will require it to break its encryption and compromise user privacy.
The petition is yet to come up for hearing.
Apple<\/a> Exempted<\/b>
Officials pointed out that while Apple's iMessage doesn't qualify as a social media intermediary, the company that is best known as the maker of iPhone smartphones has been told to comply with the overall IT Rules. Exemption from compliance with mandates for significant social media intermediaries was provided as the messaging service is only available on Apple iPhones and is not a platform open to everyone, the official said.
Signal and Apple did not respond to ET's request for queries over email.
Subjective Rules<\/b>
Given that the new guidelines define significant social intermediaries as those with over five million users in India, there aren’t too many end-to-end encrypted platforms that are required to furnish proof of compliance. Of these, only Signal is yet to provide the required details, with Telegram having already complied as per official sources. WhatsApp is contesting the matter in court and Apple’s iMessage is not being regarded as a social media platform.
However, industry experts questioned what they regard as certain subjective interpretations in the country’s IT Rules itself.
\"Will end to end messaging encryption be a @Apple only feature in India? Sounds odd, no? Almost like the IT Rules have subjective interpretations rather than clear, consistent legal standards,\" Apar Gupta, executive director of the Internet Freedom Foundation<\/a> said on Twitter<\/a>.
After WhatsApp announced the roll-out of its new privacy policy<\/a> earlier this year, competitors like Signal and Telegram gained traction as users moved to these platforms with mounting fear that WhatsApp could share user information with Facebook<\/a>.
While the company has maintained that only information of business users will be shared, it has been pressured to first defer the policy and delay it till the centre brings in the Privacy Bill.
\"Traceability – tracing first origin – is next to impossible without breaking end-to-end encryption. The alternative that independent experts have proposed, such as securely fingerprinting every block of text and recording the sender in a mega database, is not just challenging in terms of data and performance overheads but has severe privacy implications,\" said Prasanto K Roy, who advises global firms on tech policy. He added that it is especially challenging since India has no privacy laws yet.
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