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A Poll for Cyber Law Specialists

In order to bring clarity to the impact of the Intermediary Guidelines on the activities of any Intermediary, we seek the views of all Cyber Law Aware professionals to take a few minutes to answer the 10 point poll below. … Continue reading

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FactCheck about FactCheck Organization of the Government

[P.S. This is a continuation of the articles on the subject. Other recent articles can be found in the link given at the end of the articles] Amidst the politicisation of the announcement by the Government about the desire to … Continue reading

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There is no Right to Fake News

The Government of India has now come out with a new version of the InformationTechnology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021 which was first notified on 25th February 2021. On 28th October 2022, there was an amendment … Continue reading

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The Game of DPDPB continues?

The saga of India passing a new data protection law to replace ITA 2000/8 has still not reached the final chapter. There are completely contradictory statements coming from the Government and the Opposition. We are aware that the opposition political … Continue reading

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Quint bought by Adani?…

I would recall my several writings on naavi.org regarding how to handle fake news on the internet. Today, read an article about Wikipedia inventor who had a noble objective in giving away knowledge free. But when I reflect back on … Continue reading

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Digital India Act 8: Regulatory Oversight on PlayStore/AppleStore

One of the objectives in regulating the Mobile App ecosystem is for the regulators to have a check on the Google and Apple Playstores. These Playstores are “Intermediaries” through which apps get downloaded and hence are liable under ITA 2000/8 … Continue reading

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