Author: Tech Law Forum @ NALSAR

Ed. Note: This post by Tanvi Apte is a part of the TLF Editorial Board Test 2018 It is 2008. An entity called ASTRA has been stealing sensitive weapons technology from the Dassault Group for over half a decade and selling it to individuals, costing the company $360 million and the world much more.[1] Ironically…

Ed. Note: This post by Tanvi Apte is a part of the TLF Editorial Board Test 2018 Technology is changing the very nature of the world we live in. Currency, not to be left behind, is also adapting to this technology-driven change. As Charles Dixon says, “There are three types of currencies (today): commodity based,…

Ed. Note: This post by Shweta Rao is a part of the TLF Editorial Board Test 2018 In today’s day and age, where a majority of our lives are documented on the internet through online registrations, Instagram uploads and various social media profiles; data collection and the protections around the same are becoming exceedingly critical….

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…

Ed. Note: This post by Rithvik Mathur is a part of the TLF Editorial Board Test 2018 What are internet intermediaries? Why are they Relevant? Internet intermediaries ‘bring together or facilitate transactions between third parties on the Internet. They give access to, host, transmit and index content, products, and services originated by third parties on…

Ed. Note: This post by Rithvik Mathar is a part of the TLF Editorial Board Test 2018 One question that arises when considering the personhood of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the existence of a moral status for the technology. For example, most people believe human life is more valuable than animal life. Utilitarian would believe…

Ed. Note: This post by Mansi Meena is a part of the TLF Editorial Board Test 2018 Mobile devices these days, have become a common place and they affect how financial services are offered in addition to the consumption of these services. Niti Aayog Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Amitabh Kant said “Debit cards, credit cards…

Ed. Note: This post by Mansi Meena is a part of the TLF Editorial Board Test 2018 Blockchain based smart contracts have the potential to interrupt business as well as financial technology in the same way as online commerce interfered with the offline one. Marc Anderson, co-writer of Mosaic and co-founder of Netscape says, “when…

Ed. Note: This post by Kanu Garg is a part of the TLF Editorial Board Test 2018 The hoi polloi is generally abstracted from the intricacies of the tech – world. We might check mails every day, scroll through Facebook Newsfeed every hour and Whatsapp every alternate minute, and rather proudly proclaim ourselves to be…

Ed. Note: This post by Kanu Garg is a part of the TLF Editorial Board Test 2018 “Indeed, in today’s world, acts of terror could come not only from a few extremists in suicide vests but from a few key strokes on the computer – a weapon of mass disruption.”[1] -Barack Obama Past few decades…