This focused dossier contains 4 direct deepfake and synthetic-media records for India. General Aadhaar, KYC, privacy, cybersecurity, and sector rules are excluded from this public view.
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Creates operative SGI-specific intermediary duties: controls against specified unlawful synthetic media, prominent labels or audio disclosures and feasible provenance for other SGI, non-removal of markers, and declaration and verification duties for significant social media intermediaries.
Would, if finalised, replace the operative prominent-visibility wording with a continuous and clearly visible visual SGI label throughout the content's duration and make other proposed intermediary and digital-media oversight changes.
Warns that fake videos of the RBI Governor using technological tools were circulating with false investment claims and advises the public not to rely on them.
Identifies deepfake-enabled impersonation, synthetic identities, voice and video fraud and AI-assisted social engineering as cyber-risk scenarios and recommends layered awareness, verification, identity-security and incident-readiness controls.
“Deepfake Act” is an informal label, not the official title of a standalone Indian law.
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Indexed evidence
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Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Amendment Rules, 2026, G.S.R. 120(E), 10 February 2026
Creates operative SGI-specific intermediary duties: controls against specified unlawful synthetic media, prominent labels or audio disclosures and feasible provenance for other SGI, non-removal of markers, and declaration and verification duties for significant social media intermediaries.
Direct evidence section in the cited Markdown dossier; official URLs are reproduced from that section.
Draft amendments to the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021, published 30 March 2026; MeitY consultation notice dated 21 April 2026
Would, if finalised, replace the operative prominent-visibility wording with a continuous and clearly visible visual SGI label throughout the content's duration and make other proposed intermediary and digital-media oversight changes.
Draft-only record for the 30 March 2026 consultation and 21 April 2026 additional-proposals notice. It excludes the already-operative G.S.R. 120(E) amendment.
RBI Press Release: Caution against Deepfake Videos of Top Management circulated over Social Media, 19 November 2024
Warns that fake videos of the RBI Governor using technological tools were circulating with false investment claims and advises the public not to rely on them.
Direct evidence section in the cited Markdown dossier; official URLs are reproduced from that section.
CERT-In Advisory CIAD-2026-0020, Defending Against Frontier AI Driven Cyber Risks, 26 April 2026; Blueprint for Defending against AI Assisted Exploitation
Identifies deepfake-enabled impersonation, synthetic identities, voice and video fraud and AI-assisted social engineering as cyber-risk scenarios and recommends layered awareness, verification, identity-security and incident-readiness controls.
Direct evidence section in the cited Markdown dossier; official URLs are reproduced from that section.
