[This post has been authored by Harshit Goyal, currently in his 3rd year at National Law School of India University, Bangalore.] Imagine that you get to know about a cryptocurrency that had been launched recently and has been selling like hotcakes. The price of this token has been on a steep rise, and thus, you…
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Metadata by TLF: Issue 11
Welcome to our fortnightly newsletter, where our reporters Kruttika Lokesh and Dhananjay Dhonchak put together handpicked stories from the world of tech law! You can find other issues here. Private firm blocked from buying “.org” domain The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), which oversees the internet naming system, decided on 30 April…
Examining Artificial Intelligence and Privacy in the light of COVID-19
[This post has been authored by Suvam Kumar, a 3rd year student at National Law University, Jodhpur.] The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the frailty of mankind’s societies and systems. In spite of tremendous progress made by humans in several fields of life, we are rendered helpless by the rapid and uncontrolled spread of the coronavirus….
Metadata by TLF: Issue 10
Welcome to our fortnightly newsletter, where our reporters Kruttika Lokesh and Dhananjay Dhonchak put together handpicked stories from the world of tech law! You can find other issues here. Aarogya Setu raises serious privacy concerns The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare in India has come under heavy scrutiny for the decisions they have taken…
Metadata by TLF: Issue 9
Welcome to our fortnightly newsletter, where our reporters Kruttika Lokesh and Dhananjay Dhonchak put together handpicked stories from the world of tech law! You can find other issues here. Zoom sued by shareholder for ‘overstating’ security claims Zoom Video Communications Inc. was hit with a class action suit by one of its shareholders on April…
Metadata by TLF: Issue 8
Welcome to our fortnightly newsletter, where our reporters Kruttika Lokesh and Dhananjay Dhonchak put together handpicked stories from the world of tech law! You can find other issues here. Supreme Court quashes RBI circular and permits cryptocurrency trading A three-judge bench of the Supreme Court on 4th March, 2020, allowed dealing in cryptocurrency, quashing an…
Artificial Intelligence as an Inventor: Introducing a New Patent Paradigm in India
[This post has been authored by Lavanya Jha (West Bengal University of Juridical Sciences, Kolkata) & Shreya Jha (Amity Law School, Delhi).] The term Artificial Intelligence (AI) was coined by American computer scientist John McCarthy during the Dartmouth Conference on Artificial Intelligence in 1956. It was understood as a system of solving complex problems through…
India’s 5G Trial: The Case for Huawei’s Exclusion
[This post has been authored by Sarthak Gupta of the Institute of Law, Nirma University.] 5G is the next big change awaiting mankind. It is not just an incremental change but rather represents a paradigm shift in technology. Among other things, it is going to have a huge impact on the national and economic security…
Blockchain in the paradigm of GDPR (Part II)
[This is the second part of a two-part article by Muskan Agarwal (National Law Institute University, Bhopal) and Arpita Pandey (National Law Institute University, Bhopal). Part 1 can be found here.] Previously, the authors looked at the contradictions between blockchain and GDPR with regard to the principal obligations enlisted in GDPR. In this post, the…
Blockchain in the Paradigm of GDPR (Part I)
[This is the second part of a two-part article by Muskan Agarwal (National Law Institute University, Bhopal) and Arpita Pandey (National Law Institute University, Bhopal).] This is the first part of a two-part post that undertakes an analysis of the points of friction present between the fundamentals of blockchain technology and GDPR and of the…