9.
Mr. Dayan Krishnan further draws attention to Rule 4(4) of the
2021 Intermediary Guidelines Rules, which reads thus:
―4.
Additional due diligence to be observed by
significant social media intermediary:—
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(4)
A significant social media intermediary shall
endeavour to deploy technology-based measures,
including automated tools or other mechanisms to
proactively identify information that depicts any act
or simulation in any form depicting rape, child
sexual abuse or conduct, whether explicit or
implicit, or any information which is exactly
identical in content to information that has
previously been removed or access to which has
been disabled on the computer resource of such
intermediary under clause (d) of sub-rule (1) of rule
3, and shall display a notice to any user attempting
to access such information stating that such
information has been identified by the intermediary
under the categories referred to in this sub-rule:
Provided that the measures taken by the
intermediary under this sub-rule shall be
proportionate having regard to the interests of free
speech and expression, privacy of users on the
computer resource of such intermediary, including
interests protected through the appropriate use of
technical measures:
Provided further that such intermediary shall
implement mechanisms for appropriate human
oversight of measures deployed under this sub-rule,
including a periodic review of any automated tools
deployed by such intermediary:
Provided also that the review of automated tools
under this sub-rule shall evaluate the automated
tools having regard to the accuracy and fairness of
such tools, the propensity of bias and discrimination
in such tools and the impact on privacy and security
of such tools.‖
―Significant social media intermediary‖, it may be noted, is defined,
in clause (v) of Section 2(1) as meaning ―a social media intermediary
Signature Not Verified
having
number of registered users in India above such threshold as
Digitally Signed By:SUNIL
SINGH NEGI
CS(COMM)
Signing Date:21.04.2023
08:06:01
230/2023
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