This brief introduction to regulation of autonomous vehicles has been authored by Khushi Sharma and Aarushi Kapoor, second year students of Hidayatullah National Law University (HNLU), Raipur. [Ed. Note: This article was written before the 2019 Personal Data Protection Bill had been made public. Click here for the new Bill.] India being the 7th largest…
Building safe consumer data infrastructure in India: Account Aggregators in the financial sector (Part II)
TLF is proud to bring you a two-part guest post authored by Ms. Malavika Raghavan, Head, Future of Finance Initiative and Ms. Anubhutie Singh, Policy Analyst, Future of Finance Initiative at Dvara Research. This is the second part of a two-part series that undertakes an analysis of the technical standards and specifications present across publicly available…
Building safe consumer data infrastructure in India: Account Aggregators in the financial sector (Part I)
TLF is proud to bring you a two-part guest post authored by Ms. Malavika Raghavan, Head, Future of Finance Initiative and Ms. Anubhutie Singh, Policy Analyst, Future of Finance Initiative at Dvara Research. Following is the first part of a two-part series that undertakes an analysis of the Account Aggregator system. Click here for the second…
Legality of Linking Social Media Accounts to Aadhar
This post has been authored by Saara Mehta, a fifth year at the National Law Institute University, Bhopal. It discusses the legality of linking social media accounts to the government’s Aadhar scheme. On 20thAugust, 2019, the Attorney General of India, K.K. Venugopal, submitted to the Supreme Court that there was a need to link the social media…
Internet Broadcasting: Section 31D of the Copyright Act, 1957
This post has been authored by Anamika Kundu, a fourth year student at West Bengal University of Juridical Sciences (WBNUJS), Kolkata. It discusses Section 31D of the Copyright Act (put year), introduced in the 2012 Amendment. With the advent of smartphones and numerous interactive mobile applications, listening to music through apps have become a common…
Data Protection of Deceased Individuals: The Legal Quandry
This post has been authored by Purbasha Panda and Lokesh Mewara, fourth and fifth years from NLU Ranchi. It discusses the data protection laws for deceased individuals, and the legal justifications for post-mortem privacy. Post-mortem privacy is defined as the right of a person to preserve and control what formulates his/her reputation after death. It is…
Chance or Skill: Fantasy Sports Leagues and Gambling
This piece has been authored by Karthik Subramaniam, a second year student at NALSAR University of Law. It discusses the debate surrounding Fantasy Gaming Leagues and gambling. Spectator sports have been popular since time immemorial. fantasy sports leagues across the world have gained huge fan bases and manage to rake in massive revenues. The National…
Algorithms: Can They Collude?
This piece has been authored by Lokesh Vyas, a fourth year law student at Institute of Law, Nirma University, Ahmedabad. Here, he gives a lucid explanation of issues posed by the increasing use of algorithms. The Cloak of Algorithms Unlike the traditional market, the digital economy does not have any geographical limits. Thus, there is…
Metadata by TLF: Issue 7
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…
Standardizing the Data Economy
This piece has been authored by Namratha Murugeshan, a final year student at NALSAR University of Law and member of the Tech Law Forum. In 2006, Clive Humby, a British mathematician said with incredible foresight that “data is the new oil”. Fast forward to 2019, we see how data has singularly been responsible for big-tech…