Will the New IT rules are able to stop Fake News on Social Media Platforms?

 

The government has brought new IT rules for social media platforms such as WhatsApp to prevent fake news and criminal cases.

Under the new central government IT law, if the government asks for information, it will be mandatory to tell the social media platform about the source of the message.

This will compromise the privacy of the users, which is against the encrypted policy.

What is the way of tracing encrypted messages?

An encrypted message platform for message tracing and the government will have to work closely with metadata sharing. If a criminal activity or some other situation arises, and the government has to know the source of the message, then the location of the message can be tracked according to the time.

For this, the company should share the Metadata with the Government of India. It should also strengthen the Meta Data Analysis of the Government of India. This can prevent Chris's activity and fake news. This will not require breaking the encrypted message.

The challenge before the government is to prevent the spread of fake news and criminal activities from social media platforms. In such a situation, the government came up with a new IT rule and is working towards making message tracing mandatory. what's wrong with that?

According to Kazim Rizvi, the founder of Da Dialogue, the government should have implemented this IT law only after sitting in consultation with experts.

The Joint Parliamentary Committee on the Personal Data Protection Bill needed to pass a strong data protection law, keeping public comments in place, which would safeguard citizens' right to privacy as well as advance the country's progress.

Professor Kamakoti has provided a way to find out the source of the message with alpha-numeric hashing, what about that?

According to independent cybersecurity expert Anand Vantanarayan, the government believes that the source of any message can be found through alpha-numeric hashing technology.

Professor Kamakoti's report is the basis of this thinking of the government which he has presented in the Madras High Court. Professor Kamakoti is right that the source of encrypted-based messages can be traced from it.

But he forgot that this technology would eliminate end-to-end encryption.

Is it possible to implement the alphanumeric hashing technique?

According to Dr. Debayan Gupta, Professor of Computer Science at Ashoka University, it is necessary to curb fake news, indecent photographs, smuggling. It is also right to make government rules in this regard.

But the kind of rule that the government has to make will violate the fundamental right of citizens to privacy. The government should have taken a decision after consulting with technical experts first. Techniques such as alpha-numeric hashing are not feasible. At the same time, the safety of citizens can prove to be dangerous.

How do you see the new law of the government?

According to Da Dialog's lawyer and program manager Pranab Tiwari, this law is for the digital sector, and the person caught through this law will be punished by law, where it is mandatory to remember that it is a cyber intruder is possible for.

Through this, they can also implicate innocent citizens. On the other hand, the machine can only tell that this person sent a message - why he sent that is beyond a machine. That person can send messages with the help of increasing awareness, so should he also be punished?