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January 10, 2020 05:10 pm

Over Two Dozen Encryption Experts Call on India To Rethink Changes To Its Intermediary Liability Rules

Security and encryption experts from around the world are joining a number of organizations to call on India to reconsider its proposed amendments to local intermediary liability rules. From a report: In an open letter to India's IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad on Thursday, 27 security and cryptography experts warned the Indian government that if it goes ahead with its originally proposed changes to the law, it could weaken security and limit the use of strong encryption on the internet. The Indian government proposed a series of changes to its intermediary liability rules in late December 2018 that, if enforced, would require millions of services operated by anyone from small and medium businesses to large corporate giants such as Facebook and Google to make significant changes. The originally proposed rules say that intermediaries -- which the government defines as those services that facilitate communication between two or more users and have five million or more users in India -- will have to proactively monitor and filter their users' content and be able to trace the originator of questionable content to avoid assuming full liability for their users' actions. "By tying intermediaries' protection from liability to their ability to monitor communications being sent across their platforms or systems, the amendments would limit the use of end-to-end encryption and encourage others to weaken existing security measures," the experts wrote in the letter, coordinated by the Internet Society

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