Impact of Government Regulations on Social Media Websites

This report explores the impact of government regulations on social media websites and their effect on firms. It discusses the challenges faced by social media websites in maintaining database and ensuring privacy.

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INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................4

INTRODUCTION
The various regulations being established by the government affects the operations of
various social media websites like Facebook, Instagram, twitter etc. One of the most widely
known regulation being established on social media websites under IT act, 2000 is to develop an
effective system for maintaining database and record of the people. Besides this, another rule
being established by the government for social media websites is to frequently update their data
security for avoiding hacking and to ensure privacy of people. The main aim of this report is to
study the impact of various regulations on social media websites as well as effect on the various
firms.
MAIN BODY
Due to the establishment of wide range of rules as well as regulations by the government
of UK, it has become difficult for large number of social websites like Facebook, Instagram,
twitter to operate. Like according to the information technology act, 2000 under the provision of
section 79, the UK government has established the rule for online platform to establish an online
system for effectively maintaining database of people using their websites. These social media
websites are strictly advised to keep a record of the user name as well as login ids of the people
in order to avoid hacking. This has become a risks for these websites as it is highly complicated
to maintain the precise database of such large people (Yu, Shen and Min, 2019).
Another rule which has been established by the UK government on the operations of
social media under ISO 27001 is updating their data security as well as personal information.
The government has posed the strict rules on social media to strictly monitor the privacy of
people using these social websites. This has impacted these websites to a great extent as they
now face challenge to design more effective privacy system (Liu, 2016).
These rules also have a great impact on various firms and the most potential impact is on
the IT department of firms. The firms are now facing the challenges to provide an effective
platform to customers fro ensuring their privacy. The government regulation of updating privacy
has influenced organizations in such a way that they are bound to innovate their technology and
privacy setup (Park and et.al.,2016).

REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Liu, B., 2016, July. Research Review on the Communication Effects of Government New Media.
In 2016 2nd International Conference on Social Science and Higher Education. Atlantis
Press.
Park, M.J and et.al.,2016. Policy role of social media in developing public trust: Twitter
communication with government leaders. Public Management Review.18(9). pp.1265-
1288.
Yu, W., Shen, F. and Min, C., 2019. Governance on Social Media Data: Different Focuses
between Government and Internet Company. arXiv preprint arXiv:1904.11242.

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