indiaUpdated: Jan 16, 2020 03:43 ISTThe Union government has pushed its deadline to notify the Intermediary Guidelines (Amendment) Rules, which will define liabilities for digital companies such as Facebook and Google, according to an official who said the rules will now be disclosed around January 27-28. In September last year, the Supreme Court directed the government to give a deadline for the notification. In an affidavit filed in October, the ministry of electronics and information technology said it will complete the notification by January 15. “The case comes up for hearing on January 28; we will notify the Rules just around that time,” an official told HT. WhatsApp, which has an estimated 400 million users in India, has said that the changes could interfere with users’ privacy.

Source: Hindustan Times January 15, 2020 21:43 UTC