Tech Law Forum

Category: Internet Security

Examining the Rise of the ‘Splinternet’

December 10, 2020

Data Protection, Internet Governance, Internet Jurisdiction, Internet Security, TLF Editorial Board Test 2020-2021

[Ed Note: The following post is part of the TLF Editorial Board Test 2020-21. It has been authored by Manasvin Andra, a fourth year student of NALSAR University of Law.] Data localisation laws have been on the rise in recent years. Since Edward Snowden’s revelations regarding the National Security Agency’s PRISM program, states have begun…
Open Banking in India & the Need for Setting Uniform Standards in Usage of APIs

November 20, 2020

Internet Governance, Internet Security, Licensing, Open Access, Regulation, Technology

[This post has been authored by Vaibhav Parikh, Legal Counsel at ICICI Bank. Views are personal] The value of online/ mobile banking rose from INR 69.47 billion in 2016-17 to INR 21,317 billion in 2019-20. Providing data access to third-party firms by banks and other financial institutions has proved to be one of the important…
Metadata by TLF: Issue 15

July 20, 2020

Broadcasting, Censorship, Freedom of Speech, Intermediary Liability, Internet Governance, Internet Security, Newsletter, Right to Privacy, Surveillance

Welcome to our fortnightly newsletter, where our reporters Kruttika Lokesh and Dhananjay Dhonchak put together handpicked stories from the world of tech law! You can find other issues here. PIL filed seeking identities of content moderation officers Former RSS ideologue K N Govindacharya filed a public-interest litigation in the High Court of Delhi to prompt Google,…
Metadata by TLF: Issue 11

May 14, 2020

Antitrust, Censorship, Cryptocurrency, Data Protection, Intermediary Liability, Internet Freedoms, Internet Governance, Internet Security, Newsletter, Regulation

Welcome to our fortnightly newsletter, where our reporters Kruttika Lokesh and Dhananjay Dhonchak put together handpicked stories from the world of tech law! You can find other issues here. Private firm blocked from buying “.org” domain The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), which oversees the internet naming system, decided on 30 April…
Metadata by TLF: Issue 9

May 9, 2020

Data Protection, Digital Piracy, Internet Security, Medical Research, Newsletter, Privacy, Right to Privacy, Surveillance

Welcome to our fortnightly newsletter, where our reporters Kruttika Lokesh and Dhananjay Dhonchak put together handpicked stories from the world of tech law! You can find other issues here. Zoom sued by shareholder for ‘overstating’ security claims Zoom Video Communications Inc. was hit with a class action suit by one of its shareholders on April…
India’s 5G Trial: The Case for Huawei’s Exclusion

May 9, 2020

Internet Security, Surveillance

[This post has been authored by Sarthak Gupta of the Institute of Law, Nirma University.] 5G is the next big change awaiting mankind. It is not just an incremental change but rather represents a paradigm shift in technology. Among other things, it is going to have a huge impact on the national and economic security…
Metadata by TLF: Issue 7

November 14, 2019

Data Protection, GDPR, Internet Freedoms, Internet Security, Newsletter, Privacy, Surveillance, Technology

Welcome to our fortnightly newsletter, where our Editors put together handpicked stories from the world of tech law! You can find other issues here. Israel spyware ‘Pegasus’ used to snoop on Indian activists, journalists, lawyers In a startling revelation, Facebook owned messaging app WhatsApp revealed that a spyware known as ‘Pegasus’ has been used to target…
Mackinnon’s “Consent of The Networked” Deconstruction (Part I)

July 7, 2019

Censorship, Freedom of Speech, Intellectual Property, Intermediary Liability, Internet Freedoms, Internet Governance, Internet Security, Regulation, Social Media, Surveillance

SERIES INTRODUCTION Rebecca MacKinnon’s “Consent of the Networked: The Worldwide Struggle for Internet Freedom” (2012) is an interesting read on online speech. Having read the book, I will be familiarizing readers with some of the themes discussed in it. In Part I, we will discuss censorship in the context of authoritarian governments. In Part II,…
The Dark Web : To Regulate Or Not Regulate, That Is The Question.

December 29, 2018

101s, Internet Freedoms, Internet Governance, Internet Security, Media Law, Privacy, Regulation, Right to Privacy, Surveillance

[Ed Note : In an interesting read, Shweta Rao of NALSAR University of Law brings us upto speed on the debate regarding regulation of the mysterious “dark web” and provides us with a possible way to proceed as far as this hidden part of the web is concerned. ] Human Traffickers, Whistleblowers, Pedophiles, Journalists and…
Encryption and the extent of privacy

September 24, 2016

Internet Freedoms, Internet Security, Privacy, Right to Privacy, Right to Privacy, Technology, TLF Editorial Board Test 2016

Ed. Note.: This post, by Benjamin Vanlalvena, is a part of the NALSAR Tech Law Forum Editorial Test 2016. A background of the issue On December 2, 2015, 14 people were killed and 22 were seriously injured in a terrorist attack at the Inland Regional Center in San Bernardino, California, which consisted of a mass…