1.1 million harmful content was purged from Google in India

 Google on Friday stated that it removed over eleven.6 lakh pieces of harmful on-line content in the months of May and June in India, according with the brand new IT (Guidelines for Intermediaries and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021.

As a part of its month-to-month transparency reports for the 2 months, Google stated that similarly to the info of lawsuits obtained from users in India and the actions taken thereon, the reviews now include the elimination of actions taken because of automated detection methods across Google's systems, labeled as "Significant Social Media Intermediaries" ("SSMIs") underneath the IT Rules.

Google eliminated 634,357 portions of dangerous content for May and 526,866 for June 2021 through its automatic detection approaches.

"These figures show the quantity of elimination actions taken on content material from users in India throughout our SSMI platforms because of computerized detection processes throughout the only-month reporting period," the tech large stated in statement.

"The quantity of automated detection is near 10x that of user complaints, demonstrating the effectiveness of our automatic systems," it introduced.

Other social media companies like Facebook, WhatsApp and Twitter have additionally submitted their monthly transparency reviews as required underneath the brand new IT guidelines.

Reiterating its stand that the new IT regulations do no longer infringe the proper to privacy and the freedom of expression, the government on Wednesday informed Parliament that there is no notion to review them.

The policies caused most important controversy as micro-running a blog platform Twitter became to begin with reluctant to abide through a number of the norms which brought about a first-rate showdown, with then Electronics and IT Minister, Ravi Shankar Prasad, accusing the platform of gross violation of norms.

However, Twitter has now complied with the contentious norms including appointment of a criticism officer inside the u . S ..

Other widespread social media systems inclusive of Google had already complied with the rules.

Google stated that it invests heavily in fighting dangerous content on line and makes use of generation to locate and remove it from its platforms.

The Google record now incorporate similarly breakdown classes in phrases of form of consumer lawsuits obtained, such as impersonation, picture sexual content, and others.