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The following are some of the interesting articles that our editors have found this week on the Internet. 1. The Solace of Oblivion, Jeffrey Toobin, The New Yorker. 2. The Soul of the Censor, Robert Darnton, the New York Review of Books. 3. The Hidden World of Facebook ‘Like Farms’, MIT Technology Review. 4. Pirate Favorites…
(Image Source: https://flic.kr/p/hzrA2W) The following is a post by Shashank Singh, a third year student at NUJS, covering the first panel of the Law Commission’s ongoing Media Law Consultation, Self-Regulation v. Structural Regulation. Shashank currently serves as Associate Editor for the NUJS Law Review, and his areas of interest include Constitutional Law, Media Law and IPR. The Law…
(Image Source: https://flic.kr/p/mjhubJ) Recently in our class on the Law of Evidence, the discussion turned to the security of email accounts, specifically Gmail. Our teacher asked a general question, about how easy it would be for a person to hack a Gmail account, on a scale of 0 (extremely difficult) to 5(extremely easy). There was…
(Image Source: https://flic.kr/p/e9LG7B) (This post is based in part on a paper earlier published by Rostrum Law Review) This post first explains the Bitcoin Network itself and some of its vulnerabilities, and then the cyptography used by Bitcoins that gives it the title of Cryptocurrency.
(Image Source: https://flic.kr/p/e9LG7B) (This post is based in part on a paper published by Rostrum Law Review) Most of the currencies in the world right now, and all the reserve currencies, are fiat currencies, declared to be currencies by a legal tender, and unsupported by any physical commodity, only the rules of supply and demand (Incidentally, the term ‘fiat’…
(Image Source: opensource.com, https://flic.kr/p/84VZAr) The following post by Samyak Sibasish is the first in a series of posts analysing the effects of Social Media, specifically Facebook, on Privacy. This post focuses on the constitutional and tortuous dimensions of the issue, while the next one will focus on the contractual aspects of it. Samyak is a 3rd year…
The second post in the two-part series on Data Retention laws in India and abroad, by Balaji Subramanian. The first part can be found here. In Foreign Lands: US and the EU Earlier, I’ve given a broad picture of the data retention scenario in India. Now, I attempt to draw a comparison between India and…
The following is the first in a two-post series by Balaji Subramanian on Data Retention, a second-year student at NALSAR. Balaji is quite interested in Technology and Cyber Law, and has worked on issues ranging from Cyber Forensics to Data Retention., interning with CIPRA at NLSIU and Tanikella Rastogi Associates on related issues. Descriptively, data retention refers to the gathering…
The following post is by Shashank Atreya, a student of School of Law, Christ University, Bangalore. He is a founding member of the Committee on Public Policy and Governance, School of Law, Christ University, and has headed research panels drafting suggestions to the Parliament Standing Committee and Law Commission. Shashank is a Media Law enthusiast, and…
(Image Source: https://flic.kr/p/92t8FA) In its long series of antitrust woes, Google found itself facing an antitrust complaint filed by two Korean internet search sites a few years ago, accusing it of blocking third party search applications from the Android operating system, though it was later acquitted of the same. It was this complaint that later…