Ed. Note: This post by Rithvik Mathur is a part of the TLF Editorial Board Test 2018 What are internet intermediaries? Why are they Relevant? Internet intermediaries ‘bring together or facilitate transactions between third parties on the Internet. They give access to, host, transmit and index content, products, and services originated by third parties on…
Right to Personhood, Moral Status and Artificial Intelligence
Ed. Note: This post by Rithvik Mathar is a part of the TLF Editorial Board Test 2018 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…
Net Neutrality and Economics 101 (Part I)
Ed. Note: This post by Prateek Surisetti is a part of the TLF Editorial Board Test 2018 Prior to delving into the economic considerations relevant to imposition of Net Neutrality (Part II), it would be in the best interest of comprehension to initiate the discussion with a brief overview of the market players and the…
Net Neutrality 101
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…
Network Neutrality and Political Speech
Ed. Note: This post by Prateek Surisetti is a part of the TLF Editorial Board Test 2018 INTRODUCTION Until recently, Internet Service Providers (ISPs) could not identify the type of data that was passing through their wires. But with the advent of a technology called “Deep Packet Inspection” (allows examination of data’s nature on the…
Fintech – 101
Ed. Note: This post by Mansi Meena is a part of the TLF Editorial Board Test 2018 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…
Analysis of Smart Contracts
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…
WannaCry Ransomware Attack
Ed. Note: This post by Kanu Garg is a part of the TLF Editorial Board Test 2018 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…
Cyber Warfare As An Imminent Threat And Viability Of Existing International Laws To Tackle The Same
Ed. Note: This post by Kanu Garg is a part of the TLF Editorial Board Test 2018 “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] -Barack Obama Past few decades…
YouTube’s Adpocalpyse
Ed. Note: This post by Arvind Pennathur is a part of the TLF Editorial Board Test 2018 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…