Ed. Note: This post by Vishal Rakhecha is a part of the TLF Editorial Board Test 2016. Bitcoins have disrupted e-commerce not because of the idea of virtual currency but the peer- to-peer system it has developed. The USP of bitcoins was the decentralised structure of data entry. Any participant in the entire network can…
POLITICAL CAMPAIGNS IN A DIGITAL AGE
Ed. Note: This post, by Kaustub Bhati, is a part of the TLF Editorial Board Test 2016. The digital media, be it the digitalised version of 24×7 print media, the social networks or the instant messaging. The internet, much like the radio in its era, has radically altered who is electable. Before the digital landscape…
ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGIES
Ed. Note: This post by Kaustub Bhati is a part of the TLF Editorial Board Test 2016. Have you ever seen a Paralympic athlete run and wondered how is he doing that? The answer to that query is assistive technology. Assistive Technology is basically an umbrella term, used for any software or hardware designed to…
Throttling Net Neutrality: A Fast Lane to Success?
Ed. Note: This post by Ashwin Murthy is a part of the TLF Editorial Board Test 2016. Net neutrality in its most basic understanding is the principle that Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and the Government regulating the Internet must treat all data of the Internet the same. In a situation however where these bodies can…
YouTube’s Copyright Policy – An Explanation
Ed. Note: This post by Ashwin Murthy is a part of the TLF Editorial Board Test 2016. Digital media has become the norm of the modern world and in the field no website is as dominant as YouTube. YouTube, currently a Google subsidiary, controls the market when it comes to video sharing, outpacing the other…
Encryption and the extent of privacy
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…
Rights of persons with disability and Copyright
Ed. Note.: This post, by Benjamin Vanlalvena, is a part of the NALSAR Tech Law Forum Editorial Test 2016. How are disabled persons affected by Copyright Law? The onset of the digital era has brought in an ease of access for persons with disabilities greater access to resources earlier not available not to them through…
RELIANCE JIO: REGULATORY AND PRIVACY IMPLICATIONS
Ed. Note.: This post, by Sayan Bhattacharya, is a part of the NALSAR Tech Law Forum Editorial Test 2016. In the world of technology dominated by a power struggle in terms of presence and absence in data circles, Reliance Jio has probably made the biggest tech news of the year with its revolutionary schemes. By…
LEGAL ISSUES SURROUNDING SEARCH ENGINE LIABILITY
Ed. Note.: This post, by Sayan Bhattacharya, is a part of the NALSAR Tech Law Forum Editorial Test 2016. Search engines which are quintessential to our internet experience are mechanisms of indexing and crawling through data to provide us with a list of links which are most relevant to both our present and past searches….
The Right to Be Forgotten – An Explanation
Ed. Note.: This post, by Ashwin Murthy, is a part of the NALSAR Tech Law Forum Editorial Test 2016. The right to be forgotten is the right of an individual to request search engines to take down certain results relating to the individual, such as links to personal information if that information is inadequate, irrelevant…