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The government on Friday specified 5 million registered users in India as the threshold for a social media intermediary to be considered a significant social media intermediary as mentioned in the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules 2021. The rules make a distinction between social media intermediaries and significant social media intermediaries, who have a large number of users. The government had said on Thursday, while notifying the Rules, that it will specify the threshold of the user base that will distinguish between the two. Large social media firms including Facebook and Twitter said they are studying the rules.
Last January, Amazon founder and Chief Executive Jeff Bezos was in India, holding closed-door meetings with top industry leaders including Mukesh Ambani and Kishore Biyani. He hobnobbed with Bollywood stars, visited the iconic Taj Mahal, flew kites with children and also experienced Indian street food. He even delivered a package to a customer from a kirana store in Mumbai and shared the picture on his Instagram account. A lot has changed since then. In a surprise move, Bezos stepped down as CEO of the e-commerce giant on Tuesday. He would transition to the executive chair of Amazon Board and will stay engaged in important Amazon initiatives. Andy Jassy, who heads the company’s cloud computing platform Amazon Web Services (AWS), is expected to take over the role of CEO in the third quarter of 2021.
The Delhi High Court on Tuesday asked Future Retail Ltd (FRL) to maintain the status quo with respect to its $3.4 billion (about Rs 24,700 crore) deal with Reliance Retail. The court said it was satisfied that an immediate interim order was required to be passed to protect the rights of Amazon. The development has come as a temporary relief for Jeff Bezos-led e-commerce giant Amazon, which is battling to thwart the Future group’s asset sale to Reliance. “Hearing Amazon’s plea, the high court has granted an interim relief to Amazon, directing all authorities and parties to maintain the status quo on the deal,” said Salman Waris, managing partner at technology law firm TechLegis Advocates and Solicitors. “The court’s direction effectively means that the deal will be on hold till a final decision in the matter is reached. This was what Amazon had pleaded.”
UPDATED: January 23, 2021 13:00 IST
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On January 4, millions of WhatsApp users across the world found an in-app pop-up notifying them that from February 8 the messenger platform s terms of services and privacy policy would change, and users must accept the new terms to keep using the app. In the new privacy policy, WhatsApp removed a passage on allowing users to opt out of sharing certain data with Facebook, its parent firm.
This take-it-or-leave-it policy led to massive outrage against WhatsApp for being cavalier with its users privacy. Many shifted to other chat platforms such as Telegram and Signal. WhatsApp saw a 7 per cent decline in daily instals within a week of the release of the new privacy policy. In contrast, Signal saw an 18-fold increase in downloads between January 6 and 10. In India, two PILs-one in the Supreme Court and one in the Delhi High Court-were filed seeking legal intervention to prevent WhatsApp from forcing users to share p