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IT ministry to verify active mobile numbers from Social media platform

Nabanita Dutta

News Editor
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The Information Technology ministry has asked the social media platforms to maintain a database of the active mobile phone numbers of all their users for verification purpose under a new set of rules. The new set of rules will try to draw a distinction between obligations and requirements of ‘significant social media companies’ as well as other platforms in order to maintain the sync with the Personal Data Protection Bill.