This post, authored by Mr. Srikanth Lakshmanan, is part of TLF’s blog series on Account Aggregators. Other posts can be found here. Mr. Srikanth Lakshmanan is the founder of CashlessConsumer, a consumer collective working on digital payments to increase awareness, understand technology, represent consumers in digital payments ecosystem to voice perspectives, concerns with a goal…
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Metadata by TLF: Issue 3
Welcome to our fortnightly newsletter, where our editors put together handpicked stories from the world of tech law! You can find other issues here. Uber likely to start bus service in India The San-Francisco cab-aggregator giant, Uber is working on to kick-start an AC bus service in India. With the introduction of AC bus service, Uber…
Metadata by TLF: Issue 2
Welcome to our fortnightly newsletter, where our editors put together handpicked stories from the world of tech law! You can find other issues here. US Justice Department’s Big Tech Antitrust Scrutiny The past month saw a slew of antitrust investigations being opened against big tech companies such as Facebook, Google, Amazon, etc. From the EU’s…
Metadata by TLF: Issue 1
Welcome to our fortnightly newsletter, where our editors put together handpicked stories from the world of tech law! You can find other issues here. SC Decides Not to Intervene in Delhi Govt.’s School CCTV Plan On 6 July 2019, Delhi CM launched a mission to install CCTV cameras in all government schools in Delhi by November….
Analysis of Different Risk-Based Approaches of Privacy for Data Categorisation
[Ed Note: The following post is part of the TLF Editorial Board Test 2019-20. It has been authored by Gitika Lahiri, a third year student of NALSAR University of Law.] The present Data Protection Bill introduced by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology aims to change the manner in which data is stored and…
The Incomplete Promise of Self- Sovereign Identity
[Katyayani Shukla is a PhD Scholar at South Asian University. In this piece the author examines India’s Digiyatra app and argues that its self-sovereign identity framework provides only “pseudo-self-empowerment” to users due to inadequate mechanisms for accountability, explanation, and transparency in how their data is transferred and processed. The author argues that while SSI principles…
Digital Sovereignty or Digital Surveillance? Examining Sanchar Saathi Under India’s DPDP Act
[Akshat Pal and Samya Rahul are second-year B.A. LL.B. (Hons.) students at National Law University, Jodhpur. This article examines the Sanchar Saathi app’s mandatory pre-installation directive and argues that its technical design, when combined with broad state exemptions under India’s Digital Personal Data Protection Act, enables mass surveillance that undermines constitutional privacy protections established in Puttaswamy. The author contends that…
Securing Digital Evidence In India: A Case For Integrating Blockchain-Based Smart Contracts
[Sarah Unhelkar is a B.A. LL.B. (Hons.) student at NLU Jodhpur. She is interested in Tech Law and Gender Studies. In this piece she argues that blockchain-based smart contracts are time and cost-efficient than the statutorily (BSA and IT Act) mandated Certificates, to verify the Chain of Custody. This is especially because smart contracts can…
India’s Soft Law Approach: Strategic Choice or Potential Oversight?
[Vrinda is a Third-Year Law student at the National Forensic Sciences University Gandhinagar. Thier areas of interest include Technology and Cyber Policy along with AI Governance.] INTRODUCTION The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) constituted a drafting committee in July 2025 to develop an AI governance framework for India. The framework is guided by two objectives: first, to…
Rights Without Courts: India’s Troubling DPDPA Model
[Adarsh Philip Roy is a PG student at West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences (WBNUJS), Kolkata.] The Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 (DPDPA) establishes a framework for the collection, storage, processing, and ultimately the protection of personal data. On closer examination, however, this seemingly progressive law carries a controversial twist. Unlike other global data protection laws,…