Security News > 2023 > March > India floats idea of dedicated tribunal to handle online offences

India's government has started to consult some proposed details of its long-awaited Digital India Act, including a declaration that the bill needed a dedicated adjudicatory tool for offenses committed online.

According to the Ministry of Electronics & IT, minister of state Rajeev Chandrasekhar said the bill's guiding principles include "Managing the complexities of internet and rapid expansion of the types of intermediaries addressing the risks of emerging technologies, protecting citizen rights, managing and setting guardrails for the varied intermediaries on the internet."

The Digital India Bill is set to replace the country's current IT Act, a 22 year old bill that is so outdated it doesn't even mention the internet.

India also currently lacks data protection legislation after its government scrapped a bill last November that had been in the works for years a after the government could not successfully negotiate its passage.

The Digital India Bill has already earned criticism on grounds to its scope is too broad. One kaw to protect everything from artificial intelligence to e-commerce, blockchain and data privacy is an ambitious goal.

Nonprofit Internet Freedom Foundation is one of those critics.

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