SERIES INTRODUCTION Rebecca MacKinnon’s “Consent of the Networked: The Worldwide Struggle for Internet Freedom” is an interesting read on free speech, on the internet, in the context of a world where corporations are challenging the sovereignty of governments. Having read the book, I will be familiarizing readers with some of the themes and ideas discussed…
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Network Neutrality Around The World : A Basic Overview
Network Neutrality (NN) refers to a network wherein participants are effectively blind to the nature of data flowing through the network. Another way of defining NN is a network wherein participants are restricted from differential treatment of data flow. Please understand that the definitions provided above are, in cliché speak, two sides of the same…
Is Protecting Internet Intermediaries and Forgetting their Users Wrong
Ed Note: The following is a guest post by Abhijeet Singh Rawaley, a student of NALSAR University of Law. The law surrounding online intermediary liability in cases concerning copyright infringement has posed a major interpretive challenge in Indian jurisprudence. The division bench of the Hon’ble High Court of Delhi in its 2016 December judgment attempted…
Financial Technology: The Industry of Innovation
Ed. Note: This post by Shweta Rao is a part of the TLF Editorial Board Test 2018 In this Age of Digitalization, technological innovation has permeated nearly every profession. In particular, the financial services sector has seen a monumental surge in the amalgamation between traditional financial services and a variety of technological advancements. This cross-over…
Law Enforcement v. End-to-End Encryption
The age of digital communications with all its power to reach people instantly, anywhere on the globe, still has shortcomings. The instant communications happening all around us through laptops or mobiles involve two crucial processes i.e. encryption and decryption. These two processes are fundamental to the transfer of our voice and messages to the designated…
Kill the Kill Switch
India is at the third position in a list with some of the most ‘democratic’ countries like Syria, Saudi Arabia, etc. Internet shutdowns can have some serious free speech and free association implications, which is why it is necessary to have clear and precise regulations to ensure that this power is not used arbitrarily and…
Cashless Societies: Causes for Concern
Source: CNN A cashless society is no longer a myth but an impending reality, one of the causes for concern is the issue of privacy which this article deals with. The idea of a cashless society, i.e., ‘a civilization holding money, but without its most distinctive material representation – cash’, is said to have originated…
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…
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….