Tech Law Forum @ NALSAR

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What are internet intermediaries? Why are they Relevant?

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One question that arises when considering the personhood of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the existence of a moral status for the technology. For example, most people believe human life is more valuable than animal life. Utilitarian would believe that anything with the capacity to suffer has moral status accordingly. It is a measure of how much consideration the well-being of an entity deserves.

Ed. Note: This post by Prateek Surisetti is a part of the TLF Editorial Board Test 2018

Ed. Note: This post by Prateek Surisetti is a part of the TLF Editorial Board Test 2018

Put very simply, a neutral network is one in which both the Internet Service Provider (ISP) and other actors are effectively blind to the content that is being put on the internet. The debate surrounding network neutrality has arisen only recently because earlier, ISPs could not identify the nature of data that was moving through its networks. Now, with the advancement of technology in the form of “Deep Packet Inspection”, ISPs can, at least as far as technology is concerned, differentiate between the various kinds of data on their networks. Also, they will be able to understand the amount of data that is being transferred from a particular server or source. In other words, an ISP can determine exactly the extent of data its users are accessing from a content provider (CP), such as Netflix or YouTube.

Ed. Note: This post by Prateek Surisetti is a part of the TLF Editorial Board Test 2018

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Mobile devices these days, have become a common place and they affect how financial services are offered in addition to the consumption of these services. Niti Aayog Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Amitabh Kant said “Debit cards, credit cards and ATMs might lose relevance in the next four years”. FinTech is a model in the financial services industry which provides an end-to-end process through the Internet. The government is pushing for digital India by introducing reforms such as AADHAAR, e-KYC, low cost NPCI/UPI transaction system, etc. In fact, the budget of 2018 lays special focus on this whole program with an expenditure of Rs. 3,073 crore for the next financial year. But, the scope of cryptocurrency has not been legitimized in the budget either. Marketplace models such as policybazzar.com, bankbazaar.com have reduced their information arbitrage, lowered costs and provide greater choice for consumers.

Ed. Note: This post by Mansi Meena is a part of the TLF Editorial Board Test 2018

Blockchain based smart contracts have the potential to interrupt business as well as financial technology in the same way as online commerce interfered with the offline one. Marc Anderson, co-writer of Mosaic and co-founder of Netscape says, “when we are sitting here in 20 years, we will be talking about blockchain technology the way we talk about the Internet today”.

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The hoi polloi is generally abstracted from the intricacies of the tech – world. We might check mails every day, scroll through Facebook Newsfeed every hour and Whatsapp every alternate minute, and rather proudly proclaim ourselves to be “netizens”, our knowledge of the alternate (virtual) reality continues to be bleak and often fantastical. However, the WannaCry Ransomware that hit the headlines as fast as it hit the computer networks across the world called for a reality check – to look beyond ‘all things bright and beautiful’ into the grayer sides of our virtual existence. Here is a brief insight into the malware attack –

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“Indeed, in today’s world, acts of terror could come not only from a few extremists in suicide vests but from a few key strokes on the computer – a weapon of mass disruption.”[1]

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YouTube may have started out as an innocuous platform for sharing funny cat videos, but in today’s world it is a giant in the field of entertainment; a place where people can earn a living by uploading original and creative content for the world to see. With such a huge business, there are bound to be pieces that need to fit together in order to ensure smooth operation, and throughout 2017, the ties between the company and its advertisers were continuously tested during what is now widely being called the ‘YouTube Adpocalypse’.