Your Tweets or Status Messages can land you in Jail – Are treated as Electronic Evidence now !

Be very careful about what you write as an update, because your innocent tweet or Facebook update can very easily land you in Jail !

Yes, that right – Now your status messages and tweets are admissible in Courts as electronic evidence under Indian IT laws. I actually scanned my timeline to see how many times have I written something that may be objectionable to others and let me tell you, I found quite a few of them. And in my case, being a blogger, I am a little careful.

I would suggest you to do a rain-check on your tweets and updates. I am sure many will not go at lengths of pulling you to court on some update, but a real disgruntled one can sure take advantage – So be careful !

You may be writing about your Boss or your employer, but remember it is in public domain and can very easily be the reason for your loosing your job.

Here is a trivia – 20% of all divorce petitions in UK handled by a company currently contain references to Facebook status messages or Twitter.

Also, according to new laws the social networking platform (Facebook, Twitter etc.) are not in anyway responsible for what you write on their platform (Section 79 of the Indian IT Act).

So, just remember next time you post what’s on your mind, ensure that it does not land you in any kind of trouble !

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Author: Arun Prabhudesai

Arun Prabhudesai is founder / chief editor at trak.in. He jumped the Entrepreneurship bandwagon in early 2008 after a long 13 year stint in I.T Industry. You can follow him on twitter @trakin or get in touch with him at admin-at-trak-dot-in or 91.9822575676.

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