An Indian law blog on internet, media and telecom.
Friendster, Orkut, Myspace, remember these names? Even if you don’t, I am sure you remember the incessant spamming! Twitter has a resounding answer for spammers by using the much ignored but quite necessary Terms of Service (ToS).
An interesting development …
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 …
As 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 …
An interview given by Mr. Kapil Sibal, Union Minister for IT and Telecom on NDTV clarifies that he did not ever intend or propose to place a pre-screening mechanism for user generated content on social networking websites in India. You …
An article published on the New York Times, India blog, “India Ink” has revealed a disturbing measure being contemplated to regulate user generated content on social networks such as Facebook and Google+. The article has disclosed that Mr. Kapil Sibal …
Comments on Reasonable Security Practices and Procedures and Sensitive Personal Information (Draft) Rules, 2011
1. DEFINITIONS
1.1. The Draft Reasonable Security Practices and Procedures and Sensitive Personal Information Rules, 2011 which are sought to be formed under Section 43A seek …
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 …
From the early 1980’s to the late 1990’s bollywood as a content production industry believed religiously in the application of “formulas” and “equations” for achieving success at the Box-Office. Rajshree Productions was one of the movie production houses which routinely …
The BBC is running a season from March 18th to 19th on how the web is transforming people’s lives. There are documentaries, features and specials on television and radio and even more material available online.
Their endeavor is to answer …
Berkman Center for Internet & Society
Summer Internship Program 2010……
For 10 weeks each summer The Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University swings opens the doors of its big yellow house to welcome a group of talented, …
Avantika Banerjee
Apar Gupta
Ashwini Sharma
Saptak Sanyal