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Hello! Here is your monthly rundown of all things tech-law and policy from India and around the world.  Spotlight  India along with other countries acknowledged the importance and accompanying challenges of free flow of data at this year’s G20 leaders’ summit. The countries also promoted the G20 AI principles floated in 2019. The principles focused on countries committing to transparency and explainability, accountability, sustainableRead more

Hi there! Here is your monthly cheat sheet to the latest developments in tech-law and policy from India and around the world!  Spotlight   The department of space released the draft space communication policy for comments. Under the policy, the government will adopt measures to authorise and monitor satellite communication to or from India, encourage participation of private players to provide satellite communication, and provide aRead more

Welcome to our Tech Ticker! Here are the latest developments from the tech-policy space in India and around the world.  Spotlight   The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India released its recommendations on cloud services, suggesting that a government registered industry body be set up to regulate cloud service providers in India. Per the telecom regulator, the department of telecommunications may create the first industry led body and require all cloudRead more

Hi there! Welcome to our monthly Tech Ticker with developments we found interesting in the tech-law and policy space.   Spotlight   As part of his Independence Day speech, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the National Digital Health Mission, aimed at digitising the entire Indian healthcare ecosystem. Soon after,  the National Health Authority released a Draft Health Data Management Policy soliciting stakeholder comments. The policy laid down the proposed privacy framework for collecting, storing, using, and sharing of health data under the NDHM.   Meanwhile, NITI Aayog released a working document titled ‘Responsible #AIforAll’ for stakeholder feedback. The documentRead more

Welcome back to our Tech Ticker, where we bring you everything tech-law and policy from India and around the world.  Spotlight   An Indian government committee, chaired by Infosys co-founder Kris Gopalakrishnan, released draft recommendations on regulating ‘non-personal data’ (anonymized data, business information) for public comments. The report argues for creating different categories of ‘non-personal’ information, and for establishing a separate regulator for NPD, amongst other things. Read our summary, here. TheRead more

Hello, and welcome to our Tech Ticker, with law and policy developments from India and around the world.   Spotlight  The MeitY banned 59 Chinese apps under section 69A of the IT Act, 2000, in the interest of Indian sovereignty and integrity, defence, security of state and public order. This comes hot at the heels of the Indo-Chinese border stand-offRead more

Hi everyone,   Welcome to the latest edition of our Tech Ticker! As the pandemic continues to rage, we hope you’re staying safe.  An engaging line up of webinars kept us busy in May. Aparajita and Vijayant walked us through potential challenges and opportunities in digital lending in a post pandemic India, together with Uday Somayajula, co-founder, ePayLater (blog). Tanya and Sreenidhi unpacked the telemedicine practice guidelines with Guriqbal Singh Jaiya,Read more

Hello everyone,  April was a busy month for us at Ikigai Law! We launched a COVID-19 focused pro-bono initiative for start-ups and their employees. We went live with our webinars, where we discussed legal issues in digital games and sports, and digital payments during the pandemic (together with Arpit Ratan, the co-founder of Signzy). This Friday (08 May), Anirudh will converse with Mriganka Pattnaik, CEO at Merkle Science, on blockchain forensicsRead more

Hello everyone,  We hope this newsletter finds you safe and well. Large parts of the world may be locked down, but tech policy developments have continued, as has work (remotely, of course) at Ikigai Law. In the first week of March, the Supreme Court declared unconstitutional the Reserve Bank of India’s notification prohibiting regulated entities from dealing in virtual currencies wherein Ikigai Law represented Koinex, CoinDXC, CoinDelta, Throughbit and certainRead more

Hi all,   The year started with a bang for Ikigai Law. We were awarded ‘Boutique Law Firm of the Year’ at the Asian Legal Business India Law Awards 2020 for the second time in a row, and we are thrilled. Soon after, the Supreme Court declared unconstitutional the Reserve Bank of India’s (“RBI”) circular prohibiting banks and other regulated entities from servicing businesses dealing in virtual currencies. Ikigai Law represented the crypto-currency exchanges in this matter, and itRead more