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Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Amendment Rules, 2026

Official gazette notification of the 2026 IT Amendment Rules by MeitY, establishing legally binding regulations for synthetic content and deepfake regulation for intermediaries.

The AIACT.IN India AI Regulation Tracker

This is a simple regulatory tracker consisting all information on how India is regulating artificial intelligence as a technology, inspired from a seminal paper authored by Abhivardhan and Deepanshu Singh for the Forum of Federations, Canada, entitled, "Government with Algorithms: Managing AI in India’s Federal System – Number 70".

We have also included case laws along with regulatory / governance documents, and avoided adding any industry documents or policy papers which do not reflect any direct or implicit legal impact.

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February 2026

Issuing Authority

Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY)

Type of Legal / Policy Document

Secondary Legislation / Rule

Status

In Force

Regulatory Stage

Regulatory

Binding Value

Legally binding instruments enforceable before courts

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Decoding the AI Competency Triad for Public Officials [IPLR-IG-014]

NIST Adversarial Machine Learning Taxonomies: Decoded, IPLR-IG-016

AI Bias & the Overlap of AI Diplomacy and Governance Ethics Dilemmas

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Related draft AI Law Provisions of aiact.in

Section 10 – Composition and Functions of the Council

Section 15 – Guidance Principles for AI-related Agreements

Section 16 – Guidance Principles for AI-related Corporate Governance

Section 17 – Post-Deployment Monitoring of High-Risk AI Systems

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