New Delhi : Online platform X, earlier known as Twitter, told Delhi HC Tuesday that it has its own system of sharing information with law enforcement agencies in cases of cybercrime , declining to come on board the Centre’s flagship “Sahyog” portal, reports Abhinav Garg. A special bench of Justices Prathiba M Singh and Amit Sharma recorded the stand of X that the platform cannot be “compelled” to join the central govt’s Delhi HC to examine objections by X in next hearing Delhi HC noted that only X remained unwilling to join Sahyog, while 38 other intermediaries have “onboarded” the portal, including Meta, WhatsApp, Apple, Amazon, Telegram, Instagram, etc. Meta also informed court its integration of WhatsApp and Facebook’s system with Sahyog would be concluded soon.
HC also noted that I4C — home ministry’s nodal agency dealing with cybercrimes — has followed up with X and held meetings on the issue, but the microblogging site maintained it is not bound to come on board Sahyog as it has always cooperated whenever authorities reached out. The bench acknowledged that I4C has a grievance against X on grounds that in the past, when requests were made for information about sexual offences against children, no response came from X, which is why X ought to come on board Sahyog. Since, except for X, every other social media entity agreed to be linked to Sahyog, HC said these no longer needed to be part of the proceedings before it and agreed to examine objection.
