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[Nehal Paliwal is a third-year B.A. LL.B. (Hons.) student at the National Law University, Jodhpur. In this piece, the author examines why users increasingly perceive algorithmically curated platforms as a form of surveillance. It attributes this perception to the exploitation of cognitive biases and the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023’s failure to regulate inferred…

[Ishana Saraf is a second-year student at Rajiv Gandhi National University of Law. In this piece, the author interrogates how generative AI shopping assistants contribute to drip pricing by generating hallucinated low-price estimates that fall outside the scope of India’s existing dark pattern regulations. The piece argues that RLHF-induced optimism bias in AI training, not…

  [Vidhi Kawrani and Anisha Joshi are fourth-year B.A. LL.B. (Hons.) students at the Institute of Law, Nirma University, Ahmedabad. In this piece, the authors examine the growing reliance of courts and regulators on destruction and deletion-based remedies to address unlawful data use in generative AI systems. The piece argues that such remedies are structurally…

[Ayan Anand Rath is a second-year student at Hidayatullah National Law University. In this piece, the author interrogates the regulatory failure underpinning the Indian telecom oligopoly, where incumbent operators weaponize jurisdictional fragmentation to transform TRAI’s technical expertise into a cartel shield. The piece argues that this shield can be shattered through a strategic reinterpretation of…

[Vishal Patidar and Mohit Jain are fourth-year students at the National Law Institute University (NLIU), Bhopal. In this piece, the authors interrogate the procedural friction introduced by the Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Rules, 2025, specifically regarding the storage limitation mandate. The piece argues that Rule 8(3) fundamentally undermines the protections of Section 8(7) of…

[Priyam Mitra is a third-year student at the National Law School of India University (NLSIU), Bengaluru. In this piece, the author interrogates the constitutional validity of the Sahyog Platform and the 2025 Rules, arguing that the recent judicial endorsement in X Corp v. UOI fails to account for the bypass of Section 69A safeguards. By…

[Tanav Kansal is an advocate practicing before the courts in Delhi NCR. In this piece, the author interrogates the escalating tension between child safety mandates and data minimization principles, specifically through the lens of recent controversies surrounding age-inappropriate content on platforms like “India’s Got Latent.” By synthesizing the August 2025 Parliamentary Standing Committee Report with…

[Yukta Chordia is a final-year student at National Law University, Nagpur. In this piece, the author interrogates the quasi-judicial role assumed by digital platforms through automated enforcement. While YouTube’s “Three-Strike” policy is framed as a shield for intellectual property, the author argues it has evolved into a mechanism for private censorship that bypasses statutory safeguards.]…

[Ritwik Sharma is a fourth-year B.A., LL.B. (Hons.) student at the Rajiv Gandhi National University of Law (RGNUL), Punjab. In this analysis, the author aims to address the escalating crisis of Non-Consensual Intimate Imagery (NCII) generated through AI-driven “nudifying” platforms. Supported by empirical data and visual mapping, the piece argues that current judicial responses, which…

[Nandinii Tandon is a fourth-year, and Mehul Sharma is a third-year B.A. LL.B. (Hons.) students, respectively, at the Rajiv Gandhi National University of Law (RGNUL), Punjab. In this article, the authors examine the conceptual friction between data monopolisation and consumer privacy in India’s rapidly evolving digital economy. By leveraging a sophisticated comparative analysis of foreign jurisprudence,…