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Home Ministry issues norms to seek legal aid from abroad
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- Union Home Ministry said that before seeking information about a subscriber’s email account hosted on servers in foreign countries, investigating agencies will have to establish that it is linked to a crime.
- The Ministry said it was not enough to show that the accused had an email account as “the account must have something to do with the crime being investigated” and it was “the lowest legal standard required of all investigative processes”.
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- Revised Guidelines:
(1) The Ministry issued revised guidelines to streamline the process of seeking legal assistance from foreign countries in criminal matters where it issued directives for drafting and processing letters rogatory, mutual legal assistance requests and service of summons, notices and other judicial documents.
(2) Most intermediaries and social media platforms like Facebook, WhatsApp, Google, Yahoo!, Twitter and YouTube have their servers outside India.
- Personal Data Protection Bill: The Centre introduced the Personal Data Protection Bill, 2019 in Lok Sabha last month that seeks to provide protection of personal data of individuals and establishes a Data Protection Authority for it.
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The Hindu