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Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Amendment Rules, 2026.
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.... namely :- "(ca) 'audio, visual or audio-visual information' means any audio, image, photograph, graphic, video, moving visual recording, sound recording or any other audio, visual or audio-visual content, with or without accompanying audio, whether created, generated, modified or altered through any computer resource;". (ii) after clause (w), the following clause shall be inserted, namely :- "(wa) 'synthetically generated information' means audio, visual or audio-visual information which is artificially or algorithmically created, generated, modified or altered using a computer resource, in a manner that such information appears to be real, authentic or true and depicts or portrays any individual or event in a manner that is, or is likely to be perceived as indistinguishable from a natural person or real-world event; Provided that the purposes of this clause, an audio, visual or audio-visual information shall not be deemed to be 'synthetically generated information', where such audio, visual or audio-visual information arises from- (a) routine or good-faith editing, formatting, enhancement, technical correction, ....
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.... policy, user agreement, or any other appropriate means, in English or any language specified in the Eighth Schedule to the Constitution, that- (i) in case of non-compliance with such rules and regulations, privacy policy or user agreement, by whatever name called, it has the right to terminate or suspend the access or usage rights of the users to the computer resource immediately, or to remove or disable access to non-compliant information, or both, as the case may be; (ii) where such non-compliance relates to the creation, generation, modification, alteration, hosting, displaying, uploading, publishing, transmitting, storing, updating, sharing or otherwise disseminating of information in contravention of any law for the time being in force, the user who is responsible for such non- compliance may be liable to penalty or punishment under the provisions of the Act or any other applicable law; and (iii) where such violation relates to the commission of an offence under any law for the time being in force, such as ^1[the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 (45 of 2023) read with the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (46 of 2023)] or the Protection of Child....
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....(32 of 2012) which requires such offence to be mandatorily reported, reporting of such offence to the appropriate authority in accordance with the provisions of the applicable law; (cb) where an intermediary becomes aware, either on its own accord or upon receipt of actual knowledge or on the basis of any grievance, complaint or information received under these rules, of any violation of sub-rule (3), in relation to the creation, generation, modification, alteration, hosting, displaying, uploading, publishing, transmitting, storing, updating, sharing or otherwise dissemination of information as synthetically generated information covered under sub-clause (ii) of clause (a), it shall take expeditious and appropriate action, including those specified in sub-clause (ii) of clause (ca);". (ii) in clause (d),- (A) in the opening portion, for the words "thirty-six hours", the words "within three hours" shall be substituted; (B) in sub-clause (ii), in item (I),- (I) in the opening portion, for the words "issued by an officer authorised for the purpose of issuing such intimation", the words "issued by an officer authorised, by order in writing, ....
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....alsely depicts or portrays a natural person or real-world event by misrepresenting, in a manner that is likely to deceive, such person's identity, voice, conduct, action, statement, or such event as having occurred, with or without the involvement of natural person; and (ii) every such information not covered under sub-clause (i) of clause (a) is prominently labelled in a manner that ensures prominent visibility in the visual display that is easily noticeable and adequately perceivable, or, in the case of audio content, through a prominently prefixed audio disclosure, that can be used to immediately identify that such information is synthetically generated information which has been created, generated, modified or altered using a computer resource and such information shall be embedded with a permanent metadata or other appropriate technical provenance mechanisms, to the extent technically feasible, including a unique identifier, to identify the computer resource of the intermediary used to create, generate, modify or alter such information; (b) the intermediary shall not enable the modification, suppression or removal of the label, permanent metadata, includi....