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ARTICLE · 05 NOVEMBER 2025

Draft Intermediary Amendments: Bugle Call For AI Governance In India?

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The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology's (‘MEITY') release of the Draft Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Amendment Rules, 2025 (‘SGI Amendment') is another spoke in the wheel of regulating internet aspects through the ‘intermediary' route under the Information Technology Act, 2000 (‘IT Act')

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The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology's ('MEITY') release of the Draft Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Amendment Rules, 2025 ('SGI Amendment') is another spoke in the wheel of regulating internet aspects through the 'intermediary' route under the Information Technology Act, 2000 ('IT Act'). The SGI Amendment is issued subsequent to an earlier set of advisories, including the MEITY Advisory dated 15 March 2024 ('MEITY Advisory'), which propose similar yet broader requirements, relating to labelling, embedding of information generated through synthetic creation apart from other measures such as disclaimers on unreliability of models, protection against bias and discrimination, consent pop-ups and other measures.

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