Cyber Crime
article on online privacy in india
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 for the journal, the article examines how courts have responded in cases of state [...]
the utilitarian critique of E2 Labs v. Zone-H
Image by ulle.b via Flickr Most litigation lawyers are aware of the incredible power of interim orders. These orders acquire a heightened status due to the prolonged delays which beset our adjudicatory institutions. Often these delays morph interim orders into perpetual ones. Hence, they turn from merely protecting the rights of the Plaintiff to offending [...]
burn after reading
Image via Wikipedia On any given day I am offered a Russian mail order bride, Viagra Prozac and other controlled drugs from Canadian pharmacies, win a billion Euros in a British lottery and asked for assistance to set up a fund transfer for the progeny of deposed despots from Nigeria. Beyond this spam, once a [...]
PIL : P is not only for the “public”
Image via Wikipedia It is quite obvious that when Pornography mixes with modern technology it poses deep problems for law, Lawrence Liang writing at the Kafila Blog on “law, cinema and sleaze” in his post, “watching films blindfolded” described the difficulty of the interpretative technique in rendering decisions on “obscene movies”. Liang, wrote that legal [...]
Summer Internship Program 2010
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, curious, and energetic full-time interns who are passionate about the promise of the Internet and [...]
Bombay HC, “Reveal thyself Blogger”
A defamation suit made the Bombay HC say, “abracadabra relief granted against Google”. Google Inc. is the owner of the popular blogging platform Blogpost. Blogpost hosted a blog by one toxicwriter (a pseudonym chosen by the blogger to mask his/her identity)…
Govt, Blackberry makers to jointly resolve security issues
After the recent bomb blasts in Delhi the national security v. blackberry (i know it rhymes).. argument is well being argued again read more here
First Adjudication Application under ITA 2000 Filed in Chennai
An adjudication application for a civil wrong (not incurring penal penalties only resulting in monetary damages being awarded if the plaintiff is successful) under Section 43 of the Information Technology Act was filed Mr C Umasankar, an NRI customer of ICICI Bank. Read more on the Blogger News Network. Click Here.
Deleted Files on Hard Disks: Electronic Records
Recently I had occasion to read the judgment in the case of Dharambir v. Central Bureau of Investigation [cited as 148 (2008) DLT 289]. The case concerns prosecution of several accused on the basis of intercepted telephone conversations. These intercepted communications were stored on hard disks out of which CD’s were made subsequently. These CD’s [...]
An Innocuous Berry
There have been reports about Blackberry devices sought to being banned in India due to security concerns. The entire rationale for this argument is due to the level of protection being provided by blackberry devices for emails to its users. Security agencies fear, emails which pass over the secure and encrypted blackberry network have a [...]
