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Twitter, WhatsApp will be dealt with pragmatically under new rules, Indian official says

By Phoebe Seers
  • 27 Apr 2021 01:41
  • 19 May 2021 00:18

India may consider extending the three-month window for compliance with new traceability requirements and will be pragmatic when dealing with so-called intermediaries like WhatsApp and Twitter when enforcing the new information-technology rules, according to an IT ministry official.
However, in one of the very few occasions where an official has

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Phoebe Seers

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Phoebe has covered Financial Crime and compliance issues for MLex since 2015, initially in the Hong Kong bureau and currently in London. While in Hong Kong she won two SOPA awards for her reporting on corruption in the energy sector in Indonesia. Prior to journalism she worked as a solicitor with a focus on white-collar crime litigation in London and Hong Kong. She has a BA in English and Philosophy from Newcastle University.

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