Speak with MintRob Sharman, vice -president and deputy chief confidentiality officer of the policy in Meta, said the company does not expect that the upcoming law will obstruct India’s operations.
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“There are unique requirements in various laws around the world. We have created an internal process called regulatory readiness, which internal the laws to make options and differences for our products globally. In this case, the DPDP Act will require a specific consent experience that we are making for India. It is a worldly process, but the way one platform is separated in different fields.”
As part of this effort, Sharman said that the current definition of protecting the online behavior of young users is “a difference that is important to fill”.
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“It makes good understanding in theory, but actually ambiguities. For example, we have systems that monitor derogatory activity, or identify people wishing to harm themselves. These things look at people’s behavior, and when we share the goal of keeping the people of India online, it is not estimated by the law,” they said.
On March 5, Mint Told that Meta had submitted its response to the rules that would implement the DPDP Act, 2023. As part of its response, Meta expressed concern with the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (Meity) around blanket restrictions in tracking users’ internet users.
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At that time, with the direct knowledge of the case, a senior government official stated that the Matty was evaluating the response, and the “two to three months” period was estimated before the law came into force.
Compliance with the law can be “meaningful and complex”, Sherman said, which has been part of the representation of Meta for consultation over law over the years.
“There are important areas of the DPDP Act that have to be interpreted in its rules. It will affect what things are obtained. Beyond the underaege user tracking and profiles, there are many other major areas of compliance – for example, the process of age verification remains an open question. There is an open question. Our ‘regulatory readiness’ has a dedicated global team within the unit.
Lawyers and policy experts in India have agreed with the assessment of Meta’s law on a large scale. Dhruv Garg, partner of the Public Policy Think-Tank India Governance and Policy Project (I-GAP), said, “Behavior tracking’s ‘of a child’ is a blanket definition of harmful effects on the good of a child, under Section 9 (2) of the DPDP Act, 2023, there is a lack of clarity.”
In addition, Sharman further said, Meta has continued to discuss with the government giving details of the compliance plan to address the specific areas of the law “.
“It helps us develop a compliance plan, which will develop in a period of several months. There are high amounts of variability in areas such as data localization and verificationable consent. But India’s approach is aligned with emerging as a global consent, which is based on voluntary manipulation of age, which is wrongly applied about them.
The executive also underlined that the Privacy Rules cannot serve as a template to apply copyright checks and queries of the Artificial Intelligence (AI) model, such as Meta’s own ‘Lama’ family.
“We are creating a set of models for global use, so unlike our platforms, we do not have the luxury to say that the experience of using Lama in India can be different from another country. On this note, we are optimistic about global AI partnership and peak conferences, and cooperative work that governments have started doing. It is good for us.”
There is currently no law controlling AI in India. While a previous set of proposed rules suggested an approach to stop the railing to prevent losses and bias cases in the AI model, a senior government official said that India has “enough current rules” to handle such cases – and a dedicated law to AI is not “adjacent.”
“It is important not to regulate technology. We are first going to see how the DPDP Act is complied with by most technology companies including Big Tech, and in the long run, assess what we need further,” assess the expectations of Sharman and Meta in India.