New Delhi, July 9 -- The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) will examine concerns related to the scraping of data from public Instagram accounts to determine whether it is in accordance with the legal framework after receiving responses to notices issued in the matter, MeitY Secretary S. Krishnan said on Thursday.

"There is a lot of social media push, backlash against that, a lot of concerns within people. We will have to look at it with reference to the legal framework and whether it is in accordance with the legal framework or not. We will examine the representations, we will see in this," Krishnan told reporters on the sidelines of CII event on GCC Business Summit.

He said the ministry would await formal respo...