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The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has come out with a set of regulations explicitly prohibiting differential pricing for mobile data services in India.3. Prohibition of discriminatory tariffs.— (1) No service provider shall offer or charge discriminatory tariffs for...
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The World Economic Forum (WEF) held its annual meeting at Davos from 20-23 January, 2016. The theme of the meeting was ‘The Fourth Industrial Revolution’ which referred to advent of new technologies that converge “the physical, digital and biological worlds”...
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This author was one of the participants in the strategy meeting at the invitation of the Electronic Frontier FoundationThe Strategy Meeting on Catalyzing Reform of Trade Negotiation Processes was held last week in Brussels. Convened by the Electronic Frontier Foundation...
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Recommendations 1 & 2In the weeks leading up to the ICANN 55 Meeting at Marrakech , we are doing a series of posts tracking the CCWG-Accountability process. Through these posts we will be examining all the recommendations and trace their...
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Cyberspace has been continually emerging as a significant forum of criminal activity that requires specialized monitoring. However, cyber crime cases often go unreported in India further increasing online vulnerability. Even reported cases mostly result in acquittal due to the lack...
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The Tallinn Manual[1], is an elaborate, academic body of work that examines the applicability of international law to cyber conflicts.  The Manual was prepared by an International Group of Experts (a group of independent international law scholars and practitioners) at...
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by sflc_admin    |    January 22, 2016SFLC.in will be organizing a cryptoparty on 30th January 2016 at 3pm in its office in Jangpura, Delhi. It will be a hands-on workshop where we teach and learn basic cryptography tools to...
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The 2nd World Internet Conference (WIC) was held in the town of Wuzhen in China from 16th-18th December, 2015. Organized by the Chinese government since 2014, the WIC is China’s attempt to present an alternate vision of internet governance, with...
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by sflc_admin    |    January 20, 2016So while all of us were busy turning the consultation paper on differential pricing of data services put out by TRAI into a battle ground for Net Neutrality in India, on the sidelines, we...
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The past month has witnessed a rise in tide of public debate surrounding net neutrality once more, accompanying the release of another Consultation Paper by TRAI, and another AIB video urging public participation in the ongoing consultation process. To add...
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By Vidya Dronamraju and Devdutta MukhopadhyayBreaking away from the conventional damsel in distress trope, the trailer of Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s latest production enticed us with the promise of a powerful warrior heroine in the form of Deepika Padukone’s Mastani. Walking...
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The original article was published on The Wire on 5th January, 2016.Plenty of Loose Ends. Credit: Pascal Charest/Flickr CC BY-NC-ND 2.0The international community’s attempt to shape a new agenda for the Information Society by taking forward the Declaration of Principles and the...
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by sflc_admin    |    January 14, 2016Based on the comments received by TRAI on the Consultation Paper on Different Pricing for Data Services, SFLC.in has submitted these counter comments as solicited by TRAI. Below is the full text of the...
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In a significant development, Google announced yesterday that it has launched a localized version of its immensely popular video-sharing website YouTube in Pakistan, Nepal, and Sri Lanka. With this launch, users in these countries will access country-specific homepages. Moreover the...
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(My thanks to Mr. Apar Gupta for providing this lead through his Twitter feed.)Amidst the noise of the winter session of Parliament last month, a new proposal to regulate online communications was made. On December 7th, the Parliamentary Standing Committee...
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A visibly agitated man once entered the American retail giant Target to inquire why his teenage daughter had been receiving coupons of baby products. A few days later, when the manager of the store called up the man to apologize...
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The last quarter of 2015 alone witnessed three key events that displayed the diversity of views on internet governance. Namely, the 10th Internet Governance Forum (IGF), the United Nations WSIS+10 High Level Meeting, and the 2nd World Internet Conference (WIC)...
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by sflc_admin    |    January 8, 2016Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) had published a consultation paper on 9 December 2015, seeking opinions from stakeholders on “Differential Pricing of Data Services”.Below is the full text of our submission to TRAI....
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by sflc_admin    |    January 6, 2016Mozilla Wants To Split Off Its Thunderbird Email/Chat ClientThe Mozilla Foundation looks like it’s about to take another step in its  bid to sharpen its focus on development around its Firefox browser. Mozilla...
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Panelists on Collaborative Innovation at Global IP Congress
by sflc_admin    |    January 6, 2016SFLC.in was represented on two of the panels on Global IP Congress 2015 held at National Law School, New Delhi between 15th and 17th of December 2015.Panel on Collaborative Innovations – 16 December 2015The...
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