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Archive for September, 2007

Like a rolling stone

The Rolling Stones song, “gimme shelter” is an apt soundtrack to EU-Microsoft Antitrust saga. Recently the appeals court confirmed the finding of the European Anti Trust Commission that Microsoft had indeed abused the dominance of its operating system, Microsoft Windows. It was held that Microsoft illegally bundled its Media Player program with Windows and refused [...]

The Personal Data Protection Bill, 2006

I have discussed at length the absence of privacy and data protection standards in India. Hence it came as quite a surprise, that a bill on data protection had been introduced in the Rajya Sabha. The bill is titled as The Personal Data Protection Bill, 2006 and was introduced on December 8, 2006 by MP. [...]