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The moral case for regulating OTT platforms

January 13, 2021January 13, 2021 Pukhraj Biala 0 Comments behaviour, child pornography, netflix, objectification of women, OTT platforms, prime video, psychology, video on demand

On 11th November, 2020, the Cabinet Secretariat issued a notification under the business of allocation rules. The notification stated that

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Blockchain enabled voting- can India warm up to it?

January 1, 2021January 1, 2021 Nathaniel Andrews 0 Comments blockchain, elections, encryption, hashing, india, peer to peer network, public key infrastructure, public ledger, technology law, voting

The United States Postal Service (USPS), early in February this year, filed a patent application for a technology that would allow US citizens to vote

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But why would Google or Facebook pay news publishers anyway?

December 16, 2020December 17, 2020 Pukhraj Biala 0 Comments advertisement, amp, australia, competition commission, Facebook, Google, news, news publishers, revenue

Facebook and Google have been in a tug of war with the Australian government, and a few others, for a

Competition Commission Investigating Google

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Here’s why Competition Commission is investigating Google

December 15, 2020December 15, 2020 Debmallya Sinha 1 Comment competition commission of india, google pay, monopoly, play store, UPI

Tech Giant, Google is under scrutiny by the Competition Commission of India for taking advantage of its dominant position in the Indian Market. The Competition Commission of India announced

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Twitter Labelling Tweets: The legal lens

December 12, 2020December 12, 2020 Adv. Bhagyashree Swami 1 Comment amit malviya, donald trump, information technology act, intermediary, labelling tweets, section 79, twitter

Recently, Twitter came into the limelight for suspending and removing tweets of POTUS and other politicians. A similar issue has come up in India. As we

Artificial Intelligence & Law Information Technology

Artificial Intelligence Regulation: Reports from the European Parliament

December 1, 2020December 1, 2020 Adv. Bhagyashree Swami 1 Comment artificial intelligence, european union, law, technology law

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the dotcom bubble of this decade. It has brought a next level advancement in already existing

Information Technology

Comments on the Draft Data Centre Policy, 2020

December 1, 2020December 1, 2020 Adv. Rohit Ranjan Praveer 0 Comments data centre, data protection, information technology, meity, policy

Introduction The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (e-Governance Division) recently introduced a draft policy titled ‘Data Centre Policy, 2020’,