{"id":119897,"date":"2021-08-09T09:32:14","date_gmt":"2021-08-09T09:32:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=119897"},"modified":"2021-08-09T09:32:15","modified_gmt":"2021-08-09T09:32:15","slug":"twitter-appoints-a-permanent-chief-compliance-officer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/twitter-appoints-a-permanent-chief-compliance-officer\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter appoints a permanent Chief Compliance Officer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Question : Under which section of the IT act has Twitter recently appointed a permanent Chief Compliance Officer ?<\/strong><br>a. Section 79<br>b. Section 72<br>c. Section 59<br>d. None of the above<br><strong>Ans. a.<br>Related facts &#8212;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Twitter recently informed the Delhi High Court that it had appointed a permanent Chief Compliance Officer, a Resident Grievance Officer and a Nodal Contact Person on August 4 in compliance with the new Information Technology Rules.<\/li><li>According to the Court Twitter should be put this development on record by filing a proper affidavit.<\/li><li>It is notable that the Court posted the case for hearing on August 10.<\/li><li><strong>Background &#8212;<\/strong><\/li><li>In previous hearings, the court had expressed reservations over Twitter changing the status of the CCO appointment from \u2018interim\u2019 to \u2018contingent\u2019 in its affidavit.<\/li><li>The Court had said the rules mandated the appointment of a senior employee as CCO, but Twitter, according to its affidavit, has appointed a \u2018contingent worker\u2019 through a third party contractor.<\/li><li>Earlier, the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology had stated that despite three months time granted to all SSMIs to comply with the Information Technology (IT) Rules, 2021, Twitter has failed to fully comply with the same.<\/li><li>Section 79 of the IT Act shields social media platforms or intermediaries such as Twitter from liability for any third party information, data, or communication link made available or hosted by it in certain cases.<\/li><li><strong>SSMIs &#8212;<\/strong><\/li><li>SSMIs stands for &#8212; Significant Social Media Intermediaries.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Link:<\/strong><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/officers-appointed-twitter-tells-delhi-hc\/article35769914.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/officers-appointed-twitter-tells-delhi-hc\/article35769914.ece<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question : Under which section of the IT act has Twitter recently appointed a permanent Chief Compliance Officer ?a. Section 79b. Section 72c. Section 59d. None of the aboveAns. a.Related facts &#8212; Twitter recently informed the Delhi High Court that it had appointed a permanent Chief Compliance Officer, a Resident Grievance Officer and a Nodal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":119898,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1121],"tags":[2344],"class_list":["post-119897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nnews","tag-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119897"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":119899,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119897\/revisions\/119899"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}