Apar GuptaThanks to the Internet Democracy Project, I had the chance to spend a wonderful Saturday with an intelligent and challenging group of bloggers. The meet was to discuss internet censorship and the track for my Q&A session were the legal concerns of Bloggers.…
Archives for the month February 2012
Legal Analysis of Google’s AdWords Programme and its Conflict with Indian Competition Law
Sudipto SircarGoogle’s AdWords programme is the primary revenue earning service for the internet giant, with Google claiming in its unaudited 2011 financial results that it earned more than thirty billion from the same. Yet the service has been barraged with controversy …
Chandini Chowk to China
At first press reports on how Delhi courts are admonishing social web companies to take down content or the legal whip will come cracking “like china” seem like a bad adaptation of goodwins law of nazi analogies. Many are bound to discount the …
Perfect Timing for Facebook’s timeline?
Ashwini SharmaAs many users of Facebook may have known by now, the said social networking site has come up with a new user profile layout, called “Timeline” which Facebook has touted as “a new way to tell your life story”.
But …
human readable privacy policies
I recently wrote a column in the Financial Express on the changes in Google’s privacy policy which explained the need for standard form agreements made by internet companies to be supplemented by infographics or any method which is less data …