Last Update: May 01, 2023, 18:55 IST
Millions of bad accounts are banned by WhatsApp every quarter
Bad accounts have been banned by the messaging platform following the IT regulations of India.
WhatsApp has banned over 47 lakh bad accounts in India in the month of March in compliance with the new IT rules 2021, the company said on Monday.
Between March 1 and March 31, WhatsApp said in its monthly compliance report, “4,715,906 WhatsApp accounts were banned and of these, 1,659,385 accounts were actively banned.”
The most popular messaging platform, which has nearly 500 million users in the country, received another record 4,720 complaint reports in March in the country, and a record “action” of 585.
“This user-safety report includes details on user complaints received and action taken by WhatsApp, as well as WhatsApp’s own preventive actions to deal with abuse on our platform,” a company spokesperson said.
Further, the company mentioned that the orders received from the Grievances Appeal Committee between March 1 and March 31 were 3, and the orders complied with were also 3.
Meanwhile, in a bid to empower millions of Indian social media users, Minister of State for Electronics and IT, Rajeev Chandrasekhar recently launched the Grievance Appeal Committee (GAC), which will look into their concerns regarding content and other issues.
To strengthen the country’s digital laws to tame Big Tech companies, the newly formed panel will look into appeals by users against the decisions of social media platforms.
The IT Ministry last month notified setting up of three GACs as required under the recently amended IT Rules, 2021. In a major push towards an open, secure, reliable and accountable internet, the Ministry of Electronics and IT has notified certain amendments aimed at safeguarding the internet. Rights of the ‘Digital Citizen’.
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