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Relaunching the Course on Cyber Law

Naavi has been a pioneer  in conducting Cyber Law Courses online through Cyber Law College which launched its first course way back in 2000. Now ITA 2000 has completed 20+ years and lot of experience has been built in the … Continue reading

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Digital India Act…Discussions-2: When a Metaverse Avatar abuses another avatar…

This is part of a series of articles on the proposed Digital India Act set to replace the ITA 2000 which was once amended in 2008. Another small set of amendments proposed by a single man committee of T K … Continue reading

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Shadow DPAI required for CERT-IN

The JPC for PDPB decided to include parts of Non Personal Data regulation within the provisions of the DPA 2021. In the process a situation of overlapping jurisdiction was created between the ITA 2000 and DPA 2021. Earlier with Section … Continue reading

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The “Chilling Effect”

Information Technology Act 2000 (ITA 2000) has been in existence since 17th October 2000 and in the amendment of 2008, effective from 27th October 2009, Section 79 was amended and subsequently “Intermediary rules 2011” were notified under the section with … Continue reading

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If Police or the Magistrate cannot understand the law, donot blame the law

On 25th February 2021, the Government of India notified a landmark set of rules under Section 79 of Information Technology Act 2000 (ITA 2000) called the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media ethics Code) Rules 2021. Since the regulation … Continue reading

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A Constitutional Crisis is being triggered by the Kerala Ordinance on Defamation

When Section 66A of ITA 2000/8 was scrapped, by the Supreme Court in 2015, most people hailed the decision of the Supreme Court as a torch bearer of “Freedom of Speech”. Naavi.org had its reservations on the scrapping since it … Continue reading

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