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A Canadian mother struggling to leave a Syrian detention camp with her six children was dealt another setback this week when a fire damaged their tent home, an advocacy group says. The woman from Quebec and a number of her children…

A Montreal woman captured in Syria has been refused government assistance returning to Canada because of the security threat she poses, a lawyer said Monday. Lawrence Greenspon said Global Affairs Canada had advised him that, based on…

Meta-owned WhatsApp banned over 4.7 million accounts in March, higher than the number of accounts it barred in the preceding month, and it received and complied with three orders from the Grievance Appellate Committee during March.WhatsApp …

Digital rights groups have called for the disclosure of the orders made by the government-appointed grievance appellate committees (GAC) where users are allowed to appeal content moderation decisions by social media intermediaries.It has…

The government has set up a technology platform to process user complaints against social media companies.The platform will automatically segregate the complaints - made to the government-appointed Grievance Appellate Committees (GACs) -…

The central government last week issued a notification for setting up the Grievance Appellate Committees (GACs) to look into users' complaints against social media giants, including Facebook, Twitter and Instagramas well as other internet…

The government has established three Grievance Appellate Committeesbased on the recently amended Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021) to look into users' complaints against internet…

Representational image only. | Photo Credit: Reuters The Grievance Appellate Committees (GACs) set up by the government to look into users' complaints against large social media companies such as Facebook, Twitter and Instagram will…

Representational image only. | Photo Credit: Reuters The Grievance Appellate Committees (GACs) set up by the government to look into users' complaints against large social media companies such as Facebook, Twitter and Instagram will…

A provision for the setting up of Grievance Appellate Committees (GACs) in the amended IT Rules may lead to the government having a disproportionate say in relation to user content hosted by social media intermediaries, experts have said.…