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Social media hub plan dropped
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- A proposal to have hubs to monitor social media traffic and trends has been withdrawn, the Union government informed the Supreme Court.
- The decision comes after the court had questioned the proposal in a hearing on July 13, saying this may transform the country into a surveillance state.
- Court’s apprehensions about the government’s plan saying that this would pose a danger in a country where privacy was a fundamental right.
Disinformation trend
- The proposed social media communication hub seeks to create a technology architecture that merges mass surveillance with a capacity for disinformation
- The petition had said the aim of the hub was to “create a technology platform “to collect digital media chatter from all core social media platforms as well as digital platforms”.
- With the government having withdrawn its plan for the hubs, the court said the petition was infructuous and disposed it of.
Source
The Hindu