Delhi HC asks Microsoft, Google to seek review of order on removing non-consensual intimate images

The Delhi High Court on Thursday asked Microsoft Corporation and Google LLC to file a petition for review of an order which had directed search engines to automatically identify and remove non-consensual intimate images (NCII) on the internet using existing technology without insisting on specific URLs.

The two tech giants, the appellants, had challenged an April 26, 2023 order of a single-judge bench of the high court that had directed the search engines to “employ the already existing mechanism with the relevant hash-matching technology”.