{"id":1018946,"date":"2026-07-04T09:06:28","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T03:36:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1018946"},"modified":"2026-07-04T09:31:54","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T04:01:54","slug":"india-mulls-separate-law-for-ai-as-deepfake-concerns-mount-nationwide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/04\/india-mulls-separate-law-for-ai-as-deepfake-concerns-mount-nationwide\/","title":{"rendered":"India mulls separate law for AI as deepfake concerns mount nationwide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Union government on Friday signalled that the country\u2019s reliance on existing information technology laws may soon give way to a dedicated legal framework for AI as concerns over deepfakes, synthetic content and cybercrime continue to mount. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have used the IT rules and other provisions of existing law to address various concerns that AI raises, but now, probably the time has come to look at separate legislation,\u201d IT secretary S. Krishnan said on the sidelines of a CII Cybersecurity Summit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Union government on Friday signalled that the country\u2019s reliance on existing information technology laws may soon give way to a dedicated legal framework for AI as concerns over deepfakes, synthetic content and cybercrime continue to mount. \u201cWe have used the IT rules and other provisions of existing law to address various concerns that AI raises, but now, probably the time has come to look at separate legislation,\u201d IT secretary S. Krishnan said on the sidelines of a CII Cybersecurity Summit.<\/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":[83,4,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1018946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-telegraph","category-newspapers","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018946","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=1018946"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1018968,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018946\/revisions\/1018968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1018946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1018946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1018946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}