{"id":57292,"date":"2019-08-26T21:12:24","date_gmt":"2019-08-26T15:42:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/?p=57292"},"modified":"2019-08-26T21:12:24","modified_gmt":"2019-08-26T15:42:24","slug":"aadhaar-social-media-account-link-organisation-urges-madras-hc-to-exercise-caution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/aadhaar-social-media-account-link-organisation-urges-madras-hc-to-exercise-caution","title":{"rendered":"Aadhaar-social media account link: Organisation urges Madras HC to exercise caution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Internet Freedom Foundation (IFF) has pleaded with the\u00a0Madras High Court\u00a0to exercise caution while making any proposal to change the design of encrypted platforms such as\u00a0WhatsApp\u00a0to check spreading rumours \u201cas such hyper-factual, expert determination would require a deliberative policy formation process\u201d. \u201cThe HC may avoid venturing into such a policy thicket given that recommending &amp; enforcing changes to platform design would require extensive consultation with experts &amp; other stakeholders. These functions are more suited for a regulatory or Govt. authority. 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To substantiate its contentions, IFF also obtained an expert opinion from IIT Bombay\u2019s Manoj Prabhakaran, a specialist in cryptography, who said Kamakoti\u2019s proposal was vulnerable to falsification of originator information.<br \/>\nThe issue pertains to a PIL moved by Antony Clement Rubin seeking to link\u00a0Aadhaardata with\u00a0social media\u00a0accounts for easy identification of cybercrime offenders. While the plea was pending before a division bench of Justice S Manikumar &amp; Justice Subramonium Prasad, Facebook moved the\u00a0Supreme Court\u00a0for transfer of all such pleas pending before various HC to the SC. Admitting Facebook\u2019s plea, the SC had ordered notices to the state Govt.<br \/>\nWhen the PIL came up for hearing before the Madras HC on Aug 21, the division bench simply adjourned the hearing, but said it was more concerned about improving coordination between law enforcement agencies &amp; social media firms in tackling cybercrime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Internet Freedom Foundation (IFF) has pleaded with the\u00a0Madras High Court\u00a0to exercise caution while making any proposal to change the design of encrypted platforms such as\u00a0WhatsApp\u00a0to check spreading rumours \u201cas such hyper-factual, expert determination would require a deliberative policy formation process\u201d. \u201cThe HC may avoid venturing into such a policy thicket given that recommending &amp; enforcing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":56998,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[90],"tags":[23066,45415,9887,45416,44203,45417],"class_list":["post-57292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bar-bench-firm-news","tag-aadhaar","tag-account-link","tag-madras-hc","tag-organisation-urges","tag-social-media","tag-to-exercise-caution"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Aadhaar-social media account link: Organisation urges Madras HC to exercise caution - Legal News India - Supreme Court &amp; High Court Updates<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Internet Freedom Foundation (IFF) has pleaded with the\u00a0Madras High Court\u00a0to exercise caution while making any proposal to change the design of encrypted - Get the latest legal news from the Supreme Court, High Courts, and government. 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