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By Shruntanjaya Bharadwaj, Intern at CCG and student of NLU Delhi Date Summary Links 23 September 2013 The Supreme Court issued an interim order saying that Aadhaar card is not mandatory. It observed that:“No person should suffer for not getting the Aadhaar card in spite of the fact that some author...
by sflc_admin | August 4, 2015 A leaked order from the Department of Telecommunications (DOT) has revealed that Indian Internet Service Providers (ISP) have been directed to block access to a list of 857 porn websites as they “relate to morality, decency as given in Article 19(2) of the Constitution...
The post originally appeared in The Hindu on 31st July 2015. While opinions may vary about Aadhar, the government is expected to act in the best interests of the people. Picture shows biometric particulars being collected in Tamil Nadu. Photo: K. Ananthan “While opinions may vary about Aadhar, the g...
A Supreme Court bench of Justices Dipak Misra and Prafulla Pant is hearing a set of at least thirty petitions challenging the constitutional validity of criminal defamation (Sections 499 and 500 of IPC and section 199 of CrPC). The summary of hearings from the first six days can be found here . This...
By Chinmayi Arun and Sarvjeet Singh The post originally appeared in The Hindu on 20th July 2015. New Ideas: A change in Indias stand signals potential openness to consultative policy-making. In picture, activists staging a protest in favour of net neutrality in New Delhi. New Ideas: “A change in Ind...
As per recent news reports the Department of Telecommunications (“DoT”), in a report on net neutrality, has recommended against the regulation of over-the-top (“OTT”) services. Nevertheless, the DoT’s report favours ‘regulatory oversight’ on the OTT service providers offering local voice calls. This...
The ‘Digital India’ campaign of the Government was launched on July 1, 2015 by the Prime Minister, Narendra Modi. The INR 1.13 lakh crore is aimed at creating a digitally empowered society and knowledge economy. The project has the potential to bridge the digital divide and benefit billions of peopl...
This infographic based on a paper published at Thomas Jefferson school of Law Research by Deven R Desai titled ‘ from Trademark to Brands’ , it shows how brands are different from Trademark, Brands are more dominant which is a Rich symbol feeds Ambitious business strategy, trademark is a simple symb...
Author: Arjun Uppal Publisher: D-Fraud Publisher access: web link Published in: March, 2015 Corruption has vast deleterious impact on a society and the economy. The evolution of a strong regulatory mechanism in the form of legislation can possibly be one step towards prevention and combating the evi...
As readers may be aware from our earlier post, ‘ Telecom Regulator Seeks Comments on Proposed Regulations for OTT Services ’, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (“TRAI”) had issued a ‘Consultation Paper on Regulatory Framework for Over-the-top (“OTT”) services’ inviting comments from the stak...
INTRODUCTION: In what is being termed as one of the most landmark judgments upholding the right to free speech in recent times, the Supreme Court in Shreya Singhal and Ors. vs Union of India, struck down Section 66A of the Information & Technology Act, 2000. The ruling which is being lauded by ...
Digital Signatures, a means of validating and authenticating the integrity of the message, software or a digital document are a technique, which has been adopted and accepted by the corporate world owing to its convenience and a technique more reliable than manual verification. In fact, Digital Sign...
In a step towards implementing the One Nation – Free Roaming objective of the National Telecom Policy, 2012, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (“TRAI”) issued the Telecommunication Tariff (Sixtieth Amendment) Order, 2015 (3 of 2015) vide Press Release No. 26/2015 dated April 9, 2015 (“60th T...
In what is being seen as an attempt by the Department of Telecommunications (“DoT”) to mend its relationship with the telecom. operators, which has gone sour over spectrum pricing, quantity and call rates and the airwave auctions the DoT has decided to hold consultations between the Telecom Secretar...
As readers may be aware from our previous post , the Department of Telecommunications, Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, Government of India (“ DoT ”) had put up spectrum in 4 bands of 800 MHz, 900 MHz, 1800 MHz and 2100 MHz, spread across the 22 telecom circle of the country. T...
As per recent media reports the Department of Telecommunications is seen to have informally agreed to allow the use of Wi-Fi while in flight in Indian air space. Certain media reports indicate that the Government might soon permit the idea of Wi-Fi based internet connections on flights, meeting a lo...
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (“TRAI”) on March 27, 2015 issued a ‘ Consultation Paper on Regulatory Framework for Over-the-top (“OTT”) services ’ inviting comments from the stakeholders on the issue. The TRAI, while issuing the consultation paper, observed that there is an ongoing debat...
The Supreme Court of India finally struck down section 66A of the Information Technology Act, 2000, holding that it is in violation of the fundamental right to free speech under Article 19(1)(a) of the Constitution. The provision criminalised content sent through electronic means that was “grossly o...
Author: Salman Waris Publisher: Getting The Deal Through, Law Business Research, London Published in: February 2015 Download: Getting the Deal Through – Cybersecurity 2015 – India Getting the Deal Through has published the 2015 edition of Cybersecutiy, a volume in the series of annual reports that p...