Social media giant Facebook on Tuesday said it aimed to comply with the provisions of India’s new IT rules of intermediaries, which come into effect on Wednesday. Pursuant to the IT Rules, we are working to implement operational processes and improve efficiencies. The ‘significant social media intermediary’ were given three months for compliance. “As Intermediaries we will undertake a comprehensive mapping of the laws against our services and identify the modification and compliance requirements under these Rules. “This possibility of imposition of criminal liability of the employees of an intermediary is at odds with modern corporate criminal liability jurisprudence, which is leaning towards replacing criminal liability with monetary penalties, in the interests of ease of doing business and better enforcement of laws,” it said in the letter.

Source: The Hindu May 25, 2021 02:23 UTC