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Summary This article focuses on the measures adopted by various governments to tackle the issue of fake news, across multiple jurisdictions. While understanding the steps taken by the different governments, it provides a timeline of the measures adopted in India to tackle this problem. Introduction Ogilvy’s Global Media Influence Survey of 2018[1] has uncovered thatRead more

This note maps the position of all the stakeholders in relation to the Recommendations on Privacy, Security, and Ownership of the Data in the Telecom Sector (“Recommendations”) published by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (“TRAI”) on 16th  July, 2018. In order to address key data protection and privacy issues, the TRAI framed twelve (12)Read more

In a 4 part series, we have mapped the publicly accessible opinions of 27 stakeholders on the White Paper of the Committee of Experts on a Data Protection Framework for India, released on 27th November, 2017 (“White Paper”). Comments of all 27 stakeholders are available here. In each of our posts, a table provides a brief snapshotRead more

In a 12 part series, we have mapped stakeholders’ comments to the Consultation Paper on Privacy, Security and Ownership of the Data in the Telecom Sector by Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI). In order to address key data privacy and security issues, the TRAI framed twelve (12) questions and invited comments to these questions. InRead more

This note maps the opinions of some stakeholders to the White Paper of the Committee of Experts on a Data Protection Framework for India, released on 27th November, 2017 (“White Paper”). While all responses to the White Paper are currently unavailable, responses of twenty-seven (27) stakeholders are available on Dvara Research’s blog, here.   BackgroundRead more

An edited version of this piece by Nehaa Chaudhari was first published by Inc42 and is available here.   About ten days ago, the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MEITY) appointed Committee of Experts chaired by Justice Srikrishna (Srikrishna Committee) released its final recommendations on what India’s data protection framework should look like. It alsoRead more

  In 2016, WhatsApp changed its privacy policy to permit WhatsApp to share data with Facebook. This policy change was challenged through a writ petition by Karmanya Singh Sareen in the Hon’ble Delhi High Court (“High Court”). The High Court provided partial relief and disposed of this writ petition in the same year.  In DecemberRead more

This note maps the opinions of some stakeholders on the White Paper of the Committee of Experts on a Data Protection Framework for India, released on 27 November, 2017 (“White Paper”). While all responses to the White Paper are currently unavailable, responses of twenty-seven (27) stakeholders are available on Dvara Research’s blog, here. Background InRead more

In the last few years, angel tax has caused considerable concerns within the startup community in India. Changes initiated to address such concerns in the angel tax framework has created uncertainty within the startup ecosystem. A timeline of the devleopments related to angel tax is available here. This article deconstructs the existing framework governing angelRead more

Angel tax has been a cause of concern  in the startup and angel investor community since 2012. It is a tax levied on investments in startups by treating the investment, or a part of the investment, as taxable income under the Income Tax Act, 1961. Following is a timeline of the important developments in relationRead more