Facebook India address?
By Bala Shah

Cyber law expert Na.Vijayashankar, also known as Naavi in Cyberspace, is one of the most respected names in the Indian tech and online world.  As Chairman of the Digital Society Foundation and as a Director of Cyber Law College, one of Naavi’s life mottos is “Let’s build a responsible Cyber society”.  His views are highly regarded and he is regularly quoted by Indian media. 

Most recently, the Bangalore Cyber Security Summit held in Mid-March and which was addressed by Telecom and Technology guru Sam Pitroda, had invited Naavi to share his vast expertise at the conference.

Naavi has blogged

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Facebook hides its contact address

Sept 22: Facebook which does huge commercial transactions in India maintains an office in Hyderabad. However the physical address of the office and the contact details of the person in charge are not made public. This should be treated as a deficient disclosure under Sec 79 of ITA 2008 as members of public who want to invoke the provisions of ITA 2008 are unable to send proper legal notices to the Company. Additionally Facebook ought to have provided particulars of persons who are contact persons for compliance of Sections 69,69A and 69B of ITA 2008. It appears that Facebook has defaulted on all these sections of ITA 2008.  I have requested the Director CERT/Secretary, Ministry of Communications and Information Technology and Secretary, Ministry of Home Affairs to take note of this aspect and take necessary action.

In the meantime, I have also served a formal notice to Facebook as per the rules under Section 79 of ITA 2008 for taking necessary action in respect of my complaint regarding impersonation by one of its users within the time specified under the rules. On receipt of the reply I intend initiating the next set of actions. If pursued it would be an effort to establish the legal responsibilities of Facebook under ITA 2008 and would be of interest to members of public.
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