## Colophon tags:: [[&arc]] [[&article]] [[%tie]] [[mwi]] [[india]] [[%t]] [[states]] [[digital india bill - act]] [[%ai]] [[ai governance]] url:: https://www.financialexpress.com/life/technology-will-not-rush-in-bringing-digital-india-act-meity-secretary-3708673/ date:: [[2025-01-07]] %% title:: Will not rush in bringing Digital India Act: MeitY secretary type:: [[clipped-note]] file:: published:: 2025-01-07T05:00:00+05:30 [Click to Archive](https://web.archive.org/save/https://www.financialexpress.com/life/technology-will-not-rush-in-bringing-digital-india-act-meity-secretary-3708673/) %% archive:: ## Notes short:: > ## Do you think key areas such as AI regulations, new intermediary frameworks, etc will take more time? > > We need to be clear that these are all things around which there should be a broad-based consensus. Further, there’s no urgency as the existing legal framework to handle such things is satisfactory at the moment. One has to look at all the risks and the instruments we have to counter those risks. For example – for personal data protection, there is a DPDP Act, for copyright issues with AI models, though the matter is subjudice, but there is a copyright law. Then the next major risk is misrepresentation and deepfakes. Deepfakes are misrepresentations and this misrepresentation is covered in the existing law. Only the quality of the misrepresentation is significantly higher than before so we have to have mechanisms by which we can detect it earlier. That can be done through labelling. We may need some legal changes in order to force intermediaries to take it down earlier. Currently, the compliance is quite good. > ## If the present legal framework is satisfactory, then is there a need for a Digital India Act? > > It’s not something that we are ruling out completely. We are open to bringing amendments to the IT Act if there is an urgent requirement. There are some things such as categorisation of intermediaries, that should be ideally done through legislation and not rules. But that is not a priority at the moment.