Season’s greetings from the Parliamentary Committee on India’s privacy law! A Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) on the Personal Data Protection Bill 2019 (PDP Bill) tabled its report (Report) in the recently concluded winter session of Parliament. And we kicked off a series on #AllThingsPDP to unpack the Report! Here’s our summary condensing the 100+ pageRead more
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“Hey there, in this edition of the Tech Ticker, we’re trying out something new. We’re sharing our take on some of the biggest tech policy developments of the month – on data protection law, cryptocurrency and the FAQs on the IT Rules. Hope you like it, let’s go!” Data protection in action It’s happened! Almost two years after itsRead more
Hi there! In this edition, we are trying to pry open some answers on the government’s tightening hold on social media companies, if the PDP Bill only covers ‘personal data’, and the growing conflict on the proposed e-commerce rules. Read on for more on all this, and then some. Digital media, online content and intermediary liability We are delighted to share that we worked with the Data Security CouncilRead more
In his book “Legal Writing: Sense & Nonsense”, the late David Mellinkoff wrote “after six hundred years of lawsuits caused by language atrocities, a suspicion is born. Maybe the lawyers don’t understand each other”. The world has issues with legalese. Especially so with contracts, which are written mostly by lawyers, for lawyers. They are notRead more
Update for all players interested in the medical, pharmaceutical and/or health-tech industry. The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has notified the New Drugs and Clinical Trial Rules, 2019 (“New Rules”). Prior to this notification clinical trials in India were governed by a scattered set of rules and guidelines mainly found under the Drugs and Cosmetic Act,Read more
There has been recent public uproar regarding levying of an extra charge in the name of ‘internet handling fee’ and caught in the midst of it are online digital merchants/service providers like Paytm, Bookmyshow and others. Generally a merchant has to pay a cost (which is linked to the value of sale) to the bankRead more
A recent interim order passed by the Delhi High Court in the matter of PVR Ltd. vs Just Dial Ltd may have grave implications for the business model followed by most aggregation platforms. Deep-linking, framing and content extraction practices undertaken typically by content aggregators may land them in to trouble. The way content aggregation platforms (takeRead more
The Union Cabinet approved[1] the National Policy on Software Products, 2019[2] (“Policy”) on 28.02.2019. The Policy aims “to develop India as a software product nation and a global leader in conception, design, development and production of software products.”[3] The Policy will be implemented by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (“MeitY”)[4] in collaboration withRead more
I. Preliminary The National Policy on Electronics 2019 (“Policy”)[1] was released by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (“MeitY”)[2] on 25.02.2019. The Policy, which recognises the electronics industry as the “world’s largest and fastest growing industry”[3], seeks to “position India as a global hub for Electronics System Design and Manufacturing (“ESDM”) by […]Read more
The National Health Policy, 2017[1] (“Policy”) envisaged the creation of a digital health technology ecosystem, aiming to leverage the potential of digital health data. The advantages of such digitalization and the potential of technology can hardly be overlooked, yet the proposals in this policy essentially involve large-scale creation, collection and sharing of health data. AnRead more