{"id":991615,"date":"2026-02-12T09:29:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T03:59:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=991615"},"modified":"2026-02-12T09:53:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T04:23:14","slug":"it-rules-may-face-enforcement-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/12\/it-rules-may-face-enforcement-issues\/","title":{"rendered":"IT Rules may face enforcement issues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The government\u2019s amended Information Technology (IT) Rules, may face legal and enforcement challenges despite sharply tighter takedown timelines for synthetically generated and unlawful content, according to legal experts, who said the absence of fresh penal provisions could limit immediate remedies for users. <\/p>\n<p>The amendments, which were notified on Tuesday by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology and will be effective from February 20, primarily tighten compliance deadlines for intermediaries. However, legal experts pointed out that the only substantive consequence for non-compliance remains the potential loss of safe harbour protection under Section 79 of the IT Act.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The government\u2019s amended Information Technology (IT) Rules, may face legal and enforcement challenges despite sharply tighter takedown timelines for synthetically generated and unlawful content, according to legal experts, who said the absence of fresh penal provisions could limit immediate remedies for users. The amendments, which were notified on Tuesday by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology and will be effective from February 20, primarily tighten compliance deadlines for intermediaries. However, legal experts pointed out that the only substantive consequence for non-compliance remains the potential loss of safe harbour protection under Section 79 of the IT Act.<\/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":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-991615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991615","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=991615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991615\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=991615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=991615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=991615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}