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Govt to examine Instagram data scraping concerns after responses to notices, says MeitY ...
India's MeitY has issued notices to Instagram regarding data scraping from public accounts and CSAM concerns, with formal responses due by July 9, 2026. The ministry will examine compliance against India's legal framework before determining next steps.
The Wire takeaway
India is escalating data governance enforcement against major platforms; founders building in India or serving Indian users face tightening scraping/data extraction rules and CSAM compliance mandates that will reshape platform engineering and data policies.
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Topics: data-scraping · instagram-regulation · meity-enforcement · india-data-policy · csam-compliance