An Indian law blog on internet, media and telecom.
The Delhi High Court Bar Association’s website was attacked by Pakistani hackers yesterday. The attack was executed by [thec7crew], a Hacker’s crew from Pakistan, that has been in the news before also for carrying out “defacement” of Indian websites …
’Repressor’ UGV by Lord Dane licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0
An Order from the Punjab and Haryana High Court raises questions as to the ability of law enforcement to investigate offences under the Information Technology Act, 2000. In a Petition
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The problems with this reasoning is that the Adjudicator seems to have gauged the “unauthorized access” under Sec. 43(1)(a), from the implicit boundaries drawn by the estrangement of the spouses. This is in the absence of specific reference to evidence or any clear
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As a panelist at the Bangalore Cyber Security Summit, I recently shared my take on the 2008 amendments to the Information Technology act. The session which was titled as a SWOT Analysis of the IT Amendment Act, 2008 saw a …
In the last week, there was a lot of attention focused on the ostensible blocking of three domains (one of which was a blogging platform –read here 1-kafila 2-medianama). I say ostensible because no one is sure what …
The Indian Journal of Law and Technology (IJLT), arguably the one of the best journals on law and technology published in India in its latest issue has published my article on Balancing Online Privacy in India. Leaving aside my visible bias …
Most litigation lawyers are aware of the incredible power of interim orders. These orders acquire a heightened status due to the prolonged delays which beset our adjudicatory institutions. Often these delays morph interim orders into perpetual ones. Hence, they turn …
On any given day I am offered a Russian mail order bride, Viagra Prozac and other controlled drugs from Canadian pharmacies, win a billion Euros in a British lottery and asked for assistance to set up a fund transfer for …
Ashwini Sharma
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