Be transparent in making intermediary rules: Mozilla, GitHub to IT Minister

Mozilla, the not-for-profit behind the Firefox web browser, Microsoft-owned GitHub and web-hosting and security company Cloudflare have written to the Electronics and Information Technology minister Ravi Shankar Prasad, asking his ministry for greater transparency in framing intermediary liability rules. 

The amended guidelines are widely expected to be presented by next week on January. As part of an ongoing case in the Supreme Court, the ministry had in October asked for three more months to finalise the rules on preventing the misuse of social media profiles. That hearing is scheduled for January 15.

The firms in the letter said it was "vital that