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…
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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…
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,…
Zero Days and Zero Rights? Legal Vacuum In India’s Cyber Incident Reporting Regime
[This article has been co-authored by Aayushman Verma and Amal Singh Patel, who hold an MS in Cyber Law & Information Security from the National Law Institute University, Bhopal. It examines India’s cyber incident reporting regime under CERT-In’s 2022 Directions, arguing that while it imposes strict six-hour reporting deadlines on companies, it fails to create…
The Cookie Consent Conundrum: Understanding EU’s Digital Privacy Law
[This article has been authored by Netraa Rathee, a 3rd-year student at NLIU, Bhopal. It traces the evolution of EU cookie regulation from the 2002 ePrivacy Directive’s opt-out model to today’s strict opt-in system, examining how consent requirements have tightened amid growing privacy concerns. The author explores enforcement challenges, consent fatigue, and the tension between…
Pixelated Perjury: Addressing India’s Regulatory Gaps in Tackling Deepfakes
[This article has been authored by Isha Katiyar, a fourth-year B.Com. LL.B. (Hons.) student at Gujarat National Law University, Gandhinagar. It examines India’s legal framework for addressing deepfakes, highlighting gaps in the IT Act, BNS, and DPDP Act that fail to define or effectively regulate AI-generated media. The author proposes a comprehensive policy roadmap including…