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This post first appeared on SpicyIP, here. (Image Source: https://flic.kr/p/hoAtp) In the last few years, smartphone manufacturers have seemingly been as popular for their patent-wars as they are for their phones. And these famed patent wars have recently come to India. Of specific note in this regard is the Xiaomi-Ericsson dispute. The main issues in this dispute, as…
(Image Source: https://flic.kr/p/pVxM7q) Back in the year 2001, when the same government was in power, it tried to pass a bill called the Communication Convergence Bill, 2001. The Bill failed, due to reasons mentioned later in the post, but apparently it isn’t quite ready to die yet. The Bill has now been revived as the Communication…
1. Cases that will define the contours of Free Speech over the Internet in India, CCG NLU-D, 2. Government admits that S. 66 A is prone to abuse, Supreme Court says the Section lacks guidelines, by Gaurav Pathak, LiveLaw. 3. India can do better than this luddite response to Uber, by Apar Gupta, Quartz India. 3. Surprise: Spanish Newspapers…
(Image Source: https://flic.kr/p/8RU8QS) In October this year, the Department of Electronics and Information Technology (DeitY) of the Ministry of Communications and IT quietly released a Draft Internet of Things (IoT) Policy, the feedback period for which closed on the 31st of October. The Policy is a part of the current government’s Digital India initiative, focusing…
1. Should digital monopolies be broken up?, The Economist. 2. The Snowden effect, quantified, Alex Wilhelm, TechCrunch. 3. Facebook can gain direct access to your mobile and take pictures or make videos at any time, MPs warn, Cristopher Hope, Telegraph. 4. Steve Jobs Lives on at the Patent Office, Antonia Regaldo, MIT Technology Review. 5. EU…
1. Cyberwar is bullshit, by Russell Brandon, the Verge. 2. Microsoft now has robot security guards, by Imad Khan, the Daily Dot. 3. China Takes The Great Firewall Up A Notch By Blocking An Entire Content Delivery Network, by Glyn Moody, Techdirt. 4. When Fitbit Is the Expert Witness, by Kate Crawford, the Atlantic. 5. Google has free speech…
(Image Source: https://flic.kr/p/oHcd72) Just yesterday, the internet became abuzz with the news that the European Parliament (‘EP’) is pressurising the European Union (‘EU’) to break Google Search away from the rest of its services (such as Android, et al). We’ve covered Google’s antitrust woes with the EU on the TLF earlier. According to this Techdirt article…
1. It Looks Like India’s Going to get a Web Filter, by Nikhil Pahwa, Medianama. 2. Up-vote all you want, but the Internet isn’t a democracy, by Caitlin Dewey, The Washington Post. 3. A Horse of a Different Color: What robotics law can learn from cyberlaw, Ryan Calo, Slate. 4. Embracing HTTPS, By Eitan Konigsburg, Rajiv Pant and Elena Kvochko,…
It is my great pleasure to announce our new Guest Editor, Sahebjot Singh. Sahebjot is currently a computer science major at the Manipal Institute of Technology, and is an avid programmer and web developer, who also enjoys dabbling in physics. He has worked earlier at a few startups, including Fracktal Works, a 3D Printing startup,…
Amlan Mohanty, an NLSIU-grad currently working at Trilegal and an all round Technology Law scholar (read: stud), has launched a new project – Techlawtopia. Techlawtopia is a non-profit website exploring the intersection of technology, law and society, and has blog posts, legal resources, and primers (which, personally, I found extremely interesting) on technology law-related topics. The website already looks quite interesting,…