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(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…
(Image Source: owni.fr) The Internet is an enabling space. It provides us with the realization of our basic human rights, including the right to freedom of expression, opinion, thought and belief. In this blog post, I have tried to give an overview of the recent developments with regard to the Internet rights in Africa.
(Image Source: https://flic.kr/p/aWsHkX) The Problem This post comes as a response to the recent litigation by Mr Kamlesh Vaswani in the Supreme Court. While the international stance towards pornography has been to allow adults to access it generally but absolutely prohibit certain kinds of pornography such as child porn, Mr Vaswani has asked for a…
(This post was earlier published on SpicyIP) Google, ARA and Open Source Licensing When Google sold Motorola, which it had bought only a short while ago for a certain amount, there was a considerable amount of speculation over the sale. One of the most curious points about the deal, though, was that Google had retained…
(Image Source: https://flic.kr/p/ciEBXf) (This post was published earlier on SpicyIP) Network Neutrality The debate around Network Neutrality is a decades old debate, but it is not any less relevant for it. The idea of ‘Network Neutrality’ is, simply put, that ISPs do not price-discriminate between their consumers. Thus, under the Net Neutrality regime, an Internet…
(ImageSource: https://flic.kr/p/5kN3ek) (This post was earlier published on SpicyIP) ICANN and a Changing Internet Ever since Swaraj covered the new domain names being permitted by ICANN back in 2011 on SpicyIP, there have been a few quite crucial developments. Before moving on to these developments, a quick background of some relevant points. Part I: Introduction…