Legislationto Tackle NRC

Why in news?
  • Supreme Court stressed finding a balance between right to online privacy and right of the State to detectpeople who use web to spread panic and commit crimes.
  • SC Bench also expressed concern over the dangers of the dark web.
More in news
  • The comments were in response to a submissions made by Attorney General K.K. Venugopal, appearing for the Tamil Nadu governmentfor
(1) Linking social media profiles of registered users with their Aadhaar numbers.
(2) If required, such platforms to share the Aadhaar number with law enforcement agencies to help detect crimes.
  • Why the linking is needed
(1) To check fake news,
(2) Defamatory articles,
(3) Pornographic materials,
(4) Anti-national and terror contents in the online mediaa
Source
The Hindu
Posted by Jawwad Kazi on 21st Aug 2019
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