Parliament Panel Calls Fb, Twitter To Speak about Knowledge Coverage Invoice

New Delhi:

Senior officers of social media giants Fb and Twitter had been requested to look sooner than a joint parliamentary committee relating to information coverage and privateness problems. The committee, which is taking a look into the Non-public Knowledge Coverage Invoice, 2019, following issues expressed through the Congress, has referred to as all stakeholders to get an summary.

The Fb officers must make a presentation at the invoice sooner than the committee at 11 am on Friday.  The presentation of Twitter officers will happen on October 28, in line with a realize issued through the Lok Sabha Secretariat.

On Thursday, it was once the flip of the Discussion board For Built-in Safety, Mumbai, which met the committee on the Parliament Space within the afternoon.  

The schedule word of the committee headed through BJP parliamentarian Meenakshi Lekhi, learn, “Oral proof through the representatives of Fb India On-line Services and products Pvt. Ltd. on The Non-public Knowledge Coverage Invoice, 2019”.  

Whilst introducing the draft invoice in parliament closing 12 months, Union minister Ravi Shankar Prasad stated  it empowers the federal government to invite firms — Fb, Google and others — for nameless own and non-personal information.  

However the opposition Congress had issues relating to using such information in some circumstances, particularly the place nationwide safety is concerned.

A piece of prison mavens had additionally flagged the problem, announcing the availability will give the federal government unaccounted get right of entry to to private information of customers. The topic was once due to this fact referred to the joint parliamentary committee headed through Ms Lekhi.  

“Whosoever is needed, a person or an entity, might be requested to depose sooner than the panel at the factor of coverage of knowledge and its privateness and their respective social media platforms might be completely tested through the panel,” information company Press Accept as true with of India quoted Meenakshi Lekhi as announcing.  

The committee has representatives from around the political spectrum and the deliberations at the invoice are being held from the “nationwide pastime viewpoint,” she added.

“It will be irrelevant and unfair to have a look at the calling of social media platform from the political prism,” the BJP MP stated.