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Parliament to grill Instagram, other social media platforms on user privacy

Published

28 July 2026

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regulatory

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Social & Community

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India

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Fusion42 · 28 July 2026 · Fusion42 review

India's Parliamentary Standing Committee on Communications and Information Technology has summoned representatives from Meta, Google, X, and Snapchat for August 3, 2026 to discuss user privacy protection, public order maintenance, and digital platform regulation following extensive social media use in recent student protests.

This Wire brief sits within Fusion42's coverage of Social & Community, and 4 sources have reported it.

◆ The Wire takeaway

India's parliament is moving from complaints to enforcement on social media. If you operate a platform, monetisation engine or data product in India, you now have a statutory deadline to demonstrate privacy controls for women, children and rural users - and the government has linked this directly to protest coordination.

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4 sources · 28 Jul 2026

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