VARINDIA IT MAGAZINE

Individual users not to get penalty or punishment for using banned mobile apps:  On 24 September, 2020 118 more apps were banned (including PubG)   under section 69A of the Information Technology Act . Last month, the Ministry blocked 43 more apps citing security concerns. But there is no penalty prescribed for individual users of mobile apps such as TikTok, PUBG, CamScanner, UC Browser etc which were blocked by the   Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology   citing security concerns. However, there is a penalty prescribed for intermediaries under Section 69A of the Information Technology Act who fail to comply with blocking orders.   This was told by the Ministry in reply to an RTI application made by a law student named Prasoon Shekhar. The Ministry said in its reply, “MeitY does not ban any App. However, blocking of specified Apps was done under the provisions of Section 69A of the Information Technology Act, 2000 and its Rules namely Information T...

The internet has been a life line of young generation in India, in the era of technology disruption it not only has created tens of millions of market and job opportunities but also a more equal society, providing an opportunity for everyone to enjoy the changes brought about by information and content sharing.  Content sharing is very common with the peers and colleagues , SHAREit, one of the three leading apps in India, has received the most attention from users as well as from the market, and its rapid growth is closely related to the development of India's internet market. In just a few years, SHAREit has featured on Google Play's homepage over 700 times and has gained more than 1 billion users worldwide, of which approximately 300 million are from India, a user base that is greater than 70 percent of India's total internet users, evidencing SHAREit's massive share of the country's content sharing market.... Read More