Intermediaries under the Information Technology Act, 2000
Intermediaries — An Intermediary is an Internet Service Provider which provides its platform for selling any goods or services or providing any service relating to an electronic record or communication. — It would include any web hosting company, online auction site, online market place, or online payment sites and cybercafes. — It includes network and telecom service providers too. — Thus, it would include carriers of information (such as gmail service) and also a payment gateway (such as Pay pal, or Pay tm service) Definition of Intermediary under the Information Technology Act, 2000 — Under Information Technology Act, 2000, Section 2(1) (w) defines an ‘Intermediary’ as ‘any person who on behalf of another person receives, stores, transmits that record or provides any service with respect to electronic record and includes telecom service providers, internet service providers, web hosting service providers, search engines, online payment s...