India IT Rules (SGI).

Use. synthetically generated information — labelling, provenance, rapid takedown (in force 2026-02-20).

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India IT Rules (SGI) is enacted (or near-enacted) law in a specific jurisdiction, with a specific obligation and a specific date. Planisphere maps the obligation to an evidence record supporting the bias audit, transparency disclosure, or high-risk notice — and pins it to the section and effective date so a third party can verify it.

Answers: What does India IT Rules (SGI) require, by when, and what does Planisphere deliver for it?

Planisphere measures your tool deployment against India IT Rules (SGI) and seals the result into a signed, Merkle-rooted evidence record. The grade recomputes on your own hardware; the model state never crosses the boundary.

The Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Amendment Rules, 2026 were notified 2026-02-10 and took effect 2026-02-20. They define synthetically generated information — audio, visual or audio-visual content created or altered algorithmically so as to appear real — and require it to carry a prominent visible label, easily noticeable and adequately perceivable, or for audio a prominently prefixed audio disclosure. The draft Rules' ten-percent surface-area floor did not survive into the notified text, which leaves the technical means to the intermediary. Permanent metadata or an equivalent provenance mechanism must carry a unique identifier pointing at the computer resource used to create, generate, modify or alter the information. Significant social media intermediaries must additionally require users to declare whether what they publish is synthetically generated, and deploy reasonable technical measures to verify those declarations. Takedown runs on more than one clock: three hours from a court order or a reasoned notice by an authorised government officer, two hours from a user report of intimate or impersonation content, and thirty-six hours for the specified harmful categories; general user grievances move from fifteen days to seven.

What the evidence record proves.

• That a visible label was applied, with its form, placement, modality and the basis on which prominence was claimed
• That provenance metadata was embedded, under a named standard, identifying the computer resource that generated or altered the content
• That a user's declaration of synthetic origin was collected before publication
• That the intermediary's own technical verification of that declaration ran, and its result
• That a takedown notice was received, with its class and the time of receipt
• That removal was recorded against that notice, with the elapsed interval measured against the window that class carries

What this does not prove. Planisphere does not mark content, host it, or remove it, and does not observe when a removal took effect. A notice record paired with a completion record evidences the operator's own account of the interval between them; it is not independent observation of the removal. Where the notice class is not recognised the interval is recorded and no verdict is given. Not a grievance-officer filing, and not a safe-harbour determination.

Cite-anchor: Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Amendment Rules, 2026 · Synthetically generated information — labelling, provenance, declaration and takedown

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