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India withdraws demand for Apple iMessage compliance with new IT rules
- Friday | 16th July, 2021
India has withdrawn its recent demand made to iPhone-maker Apple seeking details about iMessage service and its compliance with the new IT rules, called the Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code. iMessage, which has over 25 million active users in India, was initially deemed as coming under the purview of a ‘significant social media intermediary’. The report added that iMessage is not being considered as being “primarily or solely” an entity separate from Apple. Notably, any social media intermediary with more than 5 million active users in India would be considered a “significant” social media intermediary under the new rules. “The lens is not on whether Apple is a significant social media intermediary, but whether, if asked by the government to track the first originator of a message, they will do so or not.
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