[Ed Note : The following post has been authored by guest contributor Davor Gasparevic. As Davor puts it, he is a writing virtuoso with several years of experience across a wide range of online industries, and has established himself as a crucial contributor for several online businesses and startups.] At first glance, the convergence of Virtual Reality…
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Dr. Usha Ramanathan’s Talk on the UIDAI Litigation
[Ed Note : The following post is based on Dr. Ramanathan’s enlightening talk at the NALSAR University of Law, Hyderabad. It has been authored by Karthik Subramaniam and Yashasvi Raj, first year students of the aforementioned university, who, in a slightly longer but informative read aptly put forth Dr. Ramanathan’s views on the Aadhar issue and its judicial journey. Dr. Usha…
Comments on the Srikrishna Committee Report and the Draft Data Protection Bill 2018 – I
[Ed Note : The following series of posts contain comments on the Srikrishna Committee Report and the Draft Data Protection Bill, 2018 made and compiled by students from NALSAR University of Law -Ankush Rai, Ashwin Murthy, Arvind Pennathur, Namratha Murugesan, Priyamvadha Shivaji, Shweta Rao, Sriram Kashyap, Vishal Rakhecha and Tanvi Apte. The comments have been uploaded…
TechLaw Symposium at NALSAR University of Law, Hyderabad – Press Note
[Ed Note : The following press note has been authored by Shweta Rao and Arvind Pennathur from NALSAR University of Law. Do watch this space for more details on the symposium!] On the 9th of September NALSAR University of Law’s Tech Law Forum conducted its first ever symposium with packed panels discussing a variety of…
Privacy & Transparency as Complementary Rights: Inadequacies in the Proposed Amendments to the RTI Act
[Ed Note : The following cross – post, authored by Sayan Bhattacharya of NALSAR University of Law, was first posted on the Law School Policy Review. The link to the same can be found here. ] By leaving essential terms undefined and placing a higher burden to disclose personal information, the amendments proposed by the Srikrishna Committee…
Admissibility of Secondary Digital Evidence in Courts
[Ed Note: The following is a guest post by Shriram Kashyap, a second year student of NALSAR University of Law.] The sudden influx of computers brought about major changes in the legal framework for regulating technology in India. The Information Technology Act 2000 (hereinafter the ‘IT Act’) was one such change that impacted various fields,…
The Week That Was: 25/08/2017
In this second edition of The Week That Was, we find… The 9 Judge Bench of the Supreme Court of India unanimously held that Privacy is a Fundamental Right under Part III of the Constitution of India and gave hope to the LGBT+ community, and may have implications for SEBI’s move to link with Aadhaar,…
Editors' Picks (05/05/2015)
1) Facebook’s Internet.Org is a privacy nightmare, Nikhil Pahwa, Medianama. 2) How ICANN pressures net engineers to give it behind-the-scenes control of the web, Kieren McCarthy, The Register. 3) Appearing happy on Facebook may be used against you in a court of law, Amanda Hess, Slate. 4) Online fact checking tool gets a big test with…
Editors' Picks (22/3/15)
1. Dot wants to be the Wikipedia of location mapping, Napier Lopez, TheNextWeb. 2. Hardware Designs Should be Made Free: Here’s How to Do It, Richard Stallman, WIRED. 3. Humans: The Next Platform, Geoffrey Woo, TechCrunch. 4. Huxley to Orwell: My Hellish Vision of the Future is Better Than Yours (1949), OpenCulture.
Editor's Picks (08/03/2015)
1) Anatomy of a Hack, Russell Brandom, The Verge. 2) Documentary on 2012 Delhi gang rape banned in India, Nikita Doval, Live Mint. 3) Opinion: The FCC’s Net Neutrality victory is anything but, Geoffrey A. Manne, Wired. 4) Facebook post written in Florida lands US man in United Arab Emirates jail, David Kravets, Ars Technica….