Between Could 1 and Could 31, 6,508,000 WhatsApp accounts had been banned and a pair of,420,700 of those accounts had been proactively banned.
Meta-owned WhatsApp banned greater than 65 lakh dangerous accounts in India within the month of Could, in compliance with the brand new IT Guidelines 2021, the corporate knowledgeable on Sunday.
Between Could 1 and Could 31, 6,508,000 WhatsApp accounts had been banned and a pair of,420,700 of those accounts had been proactively banned, earlier than any stories from customers within the nation.
Within the month of April, WhatsApp, which has greater than 500 million customers in India, had banned a file over 74 lakh dangerous accounts.
The preferred messaging platform additionally obtained 3,912 grievance stories like “ban appeals” in Could within the nation, and the information “actioned” had been 297.
“Accounts Actioned” denotes stories the place WhatsApp took remedial motion primarily based on the report and taking motion denotes both banning an account or a beforehand banned account being restored consequently.
“This user-safety report accommodates particulars of the person complaints obtained and the corresponding motion taken by WhatsApp, in addition to WhatsApp’s personal preventive actions to fight abuse on our platform,” in keeping with the corporate.
In a bid to empower thousands and thousands of Indian social media customers, the Centre not too long ago launched the Grievance Appellate Committee (GAC) that can look into their considerations relating to content material and different points.
The newly-formed panel, a transfer to strengthen the nation’s digital legal guidelines to tame the Massive Tech firms, will look into appeals by customers towards selections of social media platforms.
In a serious push in direction of an open, secure, trusted and accountable Web, the Ministry of Electronics and IT has notified some amendments aimed toward defending the rights of ‘Digital Nagriks’.
–IANS