New Delhi, Oct 1 (IANS) Meta-owned WhatsApp on Saturday mentioned it banned over 23 lakh accounts in India within the month of August in compliance with the brand new IT Rules, 2021.

The messaging platform, which has almost 500 million customers (based on third-party information) within the nation, acquired 598 grievance reviews within the month of August in India, and the data “actioned” have been 27.

“Over the years, we’ve got constantly invested in Artificial Intelligence and different state-of-the-art expertise, information scientists and consultants and in processes, with a purpose to maintain our customers protected on our platform. In accordance with the IT Rules 2021, WhatsApp banned over 2.3 million (2,328,000) accounts within the month of August,” mentioned an organization spokesperson.

The platform banned almost an identical variety of dangerous accounts in India in July.

Under the upgraded IT Rules 2021, main digital and social media platforms, with in extra of 5 million customers, must publish month-to-month compliance reviews.

Meanwhile, throughout a listening to difficult the moment messaging app WhatsApp’s privateness coverage, the Centre instructed the Supreme Court this week that the contentious Personal Data Protection (PDP) Bill 2019 has been withdrawn and a complete information safety Bill is being ready.

In August, the Centre withdrew the Bill that has seen 81 amendments previously three years, aiming to introduce a brand new, sharper Bill that matches into the excellent authorized framework and protects the info of billions of residents.

The new draft of the info safety Bill is being ready to reinforce environment friendly utilization of knowledge since it might largely be utilized by the business.

(Except for the headline, the remainder of this IANS article is un-edited)

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