{"id":1001068,"date":"2026-04-04T08:21:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T02:51:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1001068"},"modified":"2026-04-04T09:43:46","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T04:13:46","slug":"washington-sees-a-trade-barrier-in-indias-it-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/04\/washington-sees-a-trade-barrier-in-indias-it-rules\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington sees a trade barrier in India\u2019s IT rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The US has yet again flagged India&#8217;s Information Technology rules as trade barriers with \u201cimpractical compliance deadlines and take-down protocols\u201d. <\/p>\n<p>According to the 2026 Foreign Trade Barriers report by the US Trade Representative (USTR), an increasing number of content takedown requests are related to issues that \u201cappear to be politically motivated\u201d. It also slams the Digital Protection &amp; Data Privacy Rules for placing \u201cburdensome requirements\u201d on data fiduciaries and disclosure of personal data to the government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US has yet again flagged India&#8217;s Information Technology rules as trade barriers with \u201cimpractical compliance deadlines and take-down protocols\u201d. According to the 2026 Foreign Trade Barriers report by the US Trade Representative (USTR), an increasing number of content takedown requests are related to issues that \u201cappear to be politically motivated\u201d. It also slams the Digital Protection &amp; Data Privacy Rules for placing \u201cburdensome requirements\u201d on data fiduciaries and disclosure of personal data to the government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1001068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1001068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001068\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1001068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1001068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1001068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}