IT RULES 2021- A COMPREHENSIVE EVALUATION by Abhishek Purohit
Author: Abhishek Purohit, Student at Jindal Global Law School INTRODUCTION The new Information Technology Rules 2021 or precisely The Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code, 2021, were rolled out on 26th February. This code has been formulated by the government of India, exercising its authority under section 87(2) of ‘The Information Technology Act, 2000’, and in line with the Intermediary Guidelines issued in 2011. It differentiates between different social…