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Excited to announce that #IkigaiLaw has been nominated in the inaugural edition of the Asian Legal Business' Indian Law Awards 2019! We have been nominated for "Boutique Law Firm of the Year" and "TMT Law Firm of the Year". We are thankful for the recognition and support.
Regulatory submissions by all stakeholders are great source of #policy positions. Comparing stakeholders positions on #privacy #dataprotection issues was the motivation behind our many mapping exercises.
Here https://t.co/OY5B5YBpol we map responses to @TRAI on privacy [1/] https://t.co/PanTcsYpdB
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Policy Lead Nehaa Chaudhari writes for The Economic Times on the latest iteration of the government's draft e-commerce policy:
economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/economy/policy/view-draft-e-commerce-policy-will-wreak-havoc-on...
The un-edited version of the piece can be found on our website, here: www.ikigailaw.com/indias-protectionist-e-commerce-policy-will-hurt-its-startups/
#IkigaiLaw #ecommerce #startups #policy #data #intermediaries #government #FDI
View: Draft e-commerce policy will wreak havoc on Indian startups
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The policy will end up harming startups, raising market entry barriers and preventing them from innovation.We are very thrilled to be named the Boutique Law Firm of the Year 2019 by #ThomsonReuters Asian Law Business. A fantastic quarter for us with a mention in #Chambers & Partners for our #TMT practice and #Legal500 for our aerospace practice, and our involvement in some of the most complex #technology law and policy and investment mandates. Look forward to more! Tanya Sadana Ishita Shome Nehaa Chaudhari Ila Tyagi Darpan Singhi Sarthak Doshi Akanksha Banerjee Tuhina Joshi Ratul Roshan Surbhi Goel Anirudh Rastogi Srishti Ghoshal Shilpi Bansal Saxena
Anirudh Rastogi comments on the draft #ecommerce policy in The Economic Times magazine: The draft proposes a whole host of #consumerprotection and anti-#counterfeiting measures, which is in itself a good thing in principle, but this also means a lot of requirements for #ecommerce platforms/other intermediaries which dilutes their #intermediary status and potentially has implications for their safe harbour status.
Generally speaking, many of the problems that were there with the old policy remain in this one, including the scope being too wide. The #policy recommendations will impact many other sectors, well beyond just e-commerce.
There is a reference to the new #FDI e-commerce policy also, which this policy requires to be implemented in both letter and spirit. A clear message to foreign-funded e-commerce companies.
Anirudh Rastogi was on a panel at the Startup Buddy Conclave discussing the impact of government policies on startups. The panel discussed how various government policies have benefitted the ecosystem even though access to these benefits is sometimes difficult. Startup Buddy Services Pvt. Ltd.
Tuhina Joshi on law enforcement access to chats on social media platforms:
On December 24, 2018, the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) released a set of proposed amendments to the rules governing due diligence requirements for intermediaries in India (Proposed amendments), which are notified under Section 79 of the Information Technology Act, 2000. These amendments, which require intermediaries to actively monitor and censor unlawful activities on their platform, came on the back of repeated government calls for social media regulation in the wake of "Whatsapp lynchings" and the spread of fake news and misinformation. (See - economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/internet/whatsapp-asked-to-find-tech-solution-for-fake-message-...)
These amendments were met with strong push-back from social media giants, who argued that they would create a pre-censorship regime, akin to the Chinese internet. Cut to February 1, 2019 - Facebook has reportedly agreed to share details of private chats with the Delhi Police, in sensitive cases, particularly those involving women and children, to assist the police in its investigations. While this may be possible for Facebook messages that are not encrypted (Facebook Messenger does not offer end-to-end encryption by default, see - time.com/4944373/are-your-facebook-messages-private/), it is unclear how the police will access these details in cases where users choose to activate the “secret conversation” option which offers end-to-end encryption of messages.
See - indianexpress.com/article/cities/delhi/facebook-agrees-to-share-chat-details-with-delhi-police-55...
#IkigaiLaw #encryption #privacy #socialmedia #tech #regulation
Fix fake message problem or face action, Ravi Shankar Prasad tells WhatsApp
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WhatsApp has been asked to come up with a "technological solution" to ensure traceability of messages