Former BJP ideologue Govindacharya challenges government's use of social media in Delhi HC
New Delhi: Former BJP ideologue KN Govindacharya has challenged the Government's use of Social media to disseminate information to the public. In a petition filed through his advocate Virag Gupta, he has argued that the public information of the government could be misused or used for commercial gains by the social media platforms like Twitter and Facebook.
He told the court that the terms and conditions of the social networking sites of the agreement under which the government uses various social networking platforms are illegal. The terms and conditions state that the data could be used by these social networking sites for commercial gains, he has informed the court.
The court has asked the Centre to respond on how it can get into an agreement which allows data of the government to be used for commercial gains.
The Centre has four weeks to respond to the petitioner's doubts.
The Centre has four weeks to respond to the petitioner's doubts. The Center has told the Delhi HC that advisories regarding social media and email usage have been sent to all ministries and only the National Informatics Centre (NIC) or official emails can be used by the government officials for official purposes. It has explained that the Official social media platforms can also be used only through official nic email.
The government has also said that it has started charging service tax from social media sites since October 1. If any service provider is outside of India then service recipients will have to pay tax it said.
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Former BJP ideologue Govindacharya challenges government's use of social media in Delhi HC