New social media policy: Indian Army eases restrictions for soldiers

NEW DELHI: Relaxing existing broad bans connected utilizing respective societal media apps for its implicit 11.5 lakh soldiers, Indian Army has present travel retired with a caller argumentation that allows constricted usage.Soldiers tin present entree Instagram but lone for “purposes of viewing and monitoring”. They will, however, not beryllium allowed to station views oregon comments. Similarly, “exchange of unclassified accusation of a wide quality oregon content” has been permitted connected Skype, WhatsApp, Telegram and Signal. “But accusation oregon contented tin beryllium exchanged lone with known persons. The work for correctly identifying the recipients volition prevarication with the users,” an serviceman said.Only “passive participation” has been permitted to “obtain cognition oregon information” connected YouTube, X, Quora and Instagram. “Uploading of user-generated contented oregon messages is not permitted. LinkedIn tin beryllium utilized lone for uploading a resume and obtaining accusation connected imaginable employees/employers,” the serviceman said.The equipped forces person been highly strict with societal networking sites to guarantee classified accusation is not compromised, erstwhile adjacent getting officers and soldiers to delete Facebook and Instagram accounts.