[This article is authored by Harshitha Adari and Akarshi Narain, 2nd year students at the NALSAR University of Law, Hyderabad. It analyses the arguments in Gonzalez v. Google, a case that came before the United States Supreme Court, in the context of the judgment’s consequences on Internet free speech.] Section 230 of the Communications Decency…
Category: Intermediary Liability
The Conundrum over the legal status of search engines in India: Whether they are Significant Social Media Intermediaries under IT Rules, 2021? (Part II)
[This is the second part of a two-part article authored by Saurav Kumar, a third-year student from Dr. RML National Law University, Lucknow. The first part can be found here.] Arguments Submitted by Google Google views itself as an “aggregator,” primarily distinct from SMIs, and as such, views itself as outside the scope of…
The Conundrum over the legal status of search engines in India: Whether they are Significant Social Media Intermediaries under IT Rules, 2021? (Part I)
[This is the first part of a two-part article authored by Saurav Kumar, a third-year student from Dr. RML National Law University, Lucknow. The second part can be found here.] Introduction On February 25th, 2021, the government of India published the new Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021 (“the IT…
IT AMENDMENT RULES 2022: An Analysis of What’s Changed
[This post is authored by Sohina Pawah, a second-year student at the NALSAR University of Law, who is also an Editor for the TLF] INTRODUCTION Back in June 2022, the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (“MeitY”) had first released the proposed amendments to the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021…
Traversing the Contours of Safe Harbour: Comparison of India and US (Part II)
This is the second part of a two-part post authored by Kavya Jha and Ananya Singh, fourth-year law students at RGNUL, Punjab. The first part can be found here. In light of the ongoing attempts to provide intermediaries with the right degree of protection, this essay seeks to juxtapose the Indian approach to safe harbour…
Traversing the Contours of Safe Harbour: Comparison of India and US (Part I)
This is the first part of a two-part post authored by Kavya Jha and Ananya Singh, fourth-year law students at RGNUL, Punjab. In light of the ongoing attempts to provide intermediaries with the right degree of protection, this essay seeks to juxtapose the Indian approach to safe harbour protection with the American approach. It…
Fighting “Unlawful” Content: Moderation and the New Intermediary Guidelines
[This post has been authored by Sanjana L.B., a 4th year student at Symbiosis Law School, Hyderabad.] Introduction In January 2021, India had the highest number of Facebook users at 320 million. This was followed by the United States of America (“USA”), with 190 million users. As of February 2021, about 53.1% of the population…
Breaking Encryption and Violating User Privacy: Is there a Way Out?
[This post has been authored by Shamik Datta and Shikhar Sharma, first year students at NALSAR University of Law and National Law School India University respectively.] How the IT Rules break End-to-End Encryption End-to-end encryption ensures that intermediaries or third parties don’t have access to the content of the message and identity of the communicating…
The Internet and Marginalised Genders: A Comment in view of the Intermediary Guidelines, 2021
[Varsha Singh is a fifth-year law student and contributing editor at robos of Tech Law and Policy, a platform for marginalized genders in the technology law and policy field. This essay is part of an ongoing collaboration between r – TLP and the NALSAR Tech Law Forum Blog and is the third post in the…
Facebook and its Oversight Board: Regulatory Attempts in an Impractical Relationship
[Lian Joseph is a fourth-year law student and contributing editor at robos of Tech Law and Policy, a platform for marginalized genders in the technology law and policy field. This essay is part of an ongoing collaboration between r – TLP and the NALSAR Tech Law Forum Blog. Posts in the series may be found…