Archive for June, 2007
Kerala Gazette goes online
Thiruvananthapuram: The Kerala Gazette has gone online. All notifications and government orders published in the gazette can now be viewed on the portal www.egazette.kerala.gov.in. With this, Kerala has become the first State to offer the facility. Notifications in Malayalam and English can be viewed on the site. The online version will also have an archive [...]
Just a little patience
It is a given that any statute should be abreast with the phenomena it aims to regulate. This constant holds good in the case of The Information Technology Act, 2000. Though not an archaic legislation, however since it aims to regulate information technology it will require constant updating. This is due to the, (a) subject [...]
An Indian Court and Two Dutch ISP
This news is ironical for a person aware of dutch courts convenient adoption of universal jurisdiction against human rights violators. Two Dutch ISP’s seem to be in disregard of an interim injunction passed by a Bangalore court restraining the operators of websites hosted on their servers from posting alleged defamatory content against the applicant. The [...]
Thoughs on Lessig’s Talk @ Google Author Series
Recently I came across a video of an hour long presentation by Prof. Lawrence Lessig. It was extremely educative on his thoughts on culture in the market place, his thoughts on wiki’s, remixes, creative commons and copyright. [video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xbRE_H5hoU[/video] The presentation has a great structure, proceeding to always explain the fundamentals of a concept before proceeding [...]
Net Neutrality Litmus : India Turning Positive
The principle of net neutrality is quite simply the specification of minimum standards in achieving an objective. This allows multiple flavors of implementation, and hence it does not lock out innovation by multiple entities, does not make monopolies. The usage of the term, “digital signature certificates” throughout the Information Technology Act, 2000 has significant bearing [...]
No Newspeak : Do no evil means it does no evil
Privacy activists have a constant borne against Google alleging a simple name search on the engine reveals more information than ordinarily should be available. Well I think that all that Google is doing is its function, efficiently. Web users (excluding public personalities who do not enjoy press coverage) do not realise that most of the [...]
