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IT rules have whole new twist in social media user privacy in India
There is some confusion running in chains around about social media privacy. Will this affect everyone’s social media privacy? Let’s know about it. The new rule says to consider the social media platforms to have a chief compliance officer, a nodal contact person, and a grievance officer from India to regulate the information sent in social media. But Social Media platforms say this rule goes against their privacy policies. Appointing local officers to address concerns puts these social media platforms under the pressure of being the victims of their privacy rules, by the local authorities. What Indian Government says about it? Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad on Thursday tweeted that…
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Beware! Fake names on Facebook can cause you to face legal matters!
Facebook removed 2.5 million harmful posts from its platform! In the recent development, Facebook has removed many posts in it which were encouraging suicide and self-injury. The harmful contents were removed from the Facebook platforms. Also, Facebook is keeping a close eye on Instagram profiles and the contents too. Following the suicide of a young girl who was collecting an Instagram graphical material that was encouraging the self-harm process, Facebook has deleted over 2.5 million such harmful posts from its platform. As per Facebook figures from July to September 2019, 11.6 million child abusive contents have been removed from Facebook and over 7 lakh posts from Instagram. Other things removed…
