Parliamentary Panel Summons Facebook Officials Over Citizen’s Rights

Facebook India officers have been requested to look earlier than the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Information Technology (IT) on November 29 to debate the topic of safety of citizen’s rights with a particular emphasis on girls’s security in digital social/ on-line information media platforms.

“To hear the views of representatives Of Facebook India on the subject safeguarding citizens rights and prevention of misuse of social/online news media platforms including special emphasis on women security in the digital space,” the committee agenda learn.

The committee may also hear from officers of the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology relating to the safety of the rights of residents and forestall misuse of social/on-line information media platforms with particular emphasis on girls’s security within the digital house.

The committee may also be discussing submissions made by Facebook whistleblower Sophie  Zhang who submitted a number of allegations towards social media large Facebook and its politically refined try to affect Delhi 2020 meeting elections.

Congress senior chief Shashi Tharoor is the chairman of the parliamentary standing committee for Information and expertise.

Last week, an Indian parliamentary panel advisable treating social media platforms like Twitter and Facebook as publishers and organising a regulatory physique to supervise them, probably opening the businesses as much as extra legal responsibility for user-generated content material, in line with a Bloomberg report.

The high-level committee made these suggestions because it reportedly reviewed the non-public knowledge safety invoice launched in 2019 that seeks to guard customers’ privateness and implement strict controls on how corporations corresponding to Alphabet’s Google and Amazon accumulate, course of, and retailer knowledge.