Comments on the Draft Rules under the Information Technology Act

Internet Governance

Pranesh Prakash

28 July 2009

The Centre for Internet and Society commissioned an advocate, Ananth Padmanabhan, to produce a comment on the Draft Rules that have been published by the government under the Information Technology Act. In his comments, Mr. Padmanabhan highlights the problems with each of the rules and presents specific recommendations on how they can be improved. These comments were sent to the Department of Information and Technology.

Tags: Publications, Intellectual Property Rights, Censorship, IT Act, Intermediary Liability, Encryption

Legacy URL: https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/comments-draft-rules

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