A detailed clause-wise analysis of the Digital Personal data Protection Bill 2023 On 7 August 2023, the Lok Sabha passed the Digital Personal Data Protection Bill, 2023. It will soon be introduced in the Rajya Sabha and likely become a law in a couple of days. We present a clause-wise analysis of the 2023 Bill –Read more
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This blog post gives an overview of the copyright issues surrounding use of generative AI and their current position under India’s copyright law. It discusses attempts to secure copyright protection for AI generated works. It also delves into recent cases where generative AI tools have been sued for copyright violations. It ends with some thoughtsRead more
Here are seven design principles for regulating emerging technologies. There is a need to move away from a traditional regulate-and-forget approach, which suffers from pacing problems, in favor of a more agile, iterative, experimental regulatory approach for emerging technologies. There is chatter recently that regulation of emerging technologies should first address user harm. And thatRead more
This piece discusses what developers can do to minimise privacy risks when developing AI tools like ChatGPT. The piece first appeared on IndiaAI and can be accessed here. For privacy lawyers, ChatGPT’s ban in Italy was a ‘told-ya’ moment. Large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT are trained on huge volumes of data. This includes publicly availableRead more
The RBI wants digital lenders to follow ethical AI standards. But what does this mean in practice? In this article, we explore how digital lenders can adopt ethical AI standards before hardline regulation causes business disruption. “In our early days at Upstart, we couldn’t know for certain whether our model would be biased. It wasn’tRead more
This blogpost discusses the comments prepared by Ikigai Law with Ms. Arushi Goel (ex-Judge, India and a legal advisor based in UAE) for the draft ‘Data Protection Regulatory Framework’ notified by the Abu Dhabi Global Market in November 2020. The Abu Dhabi Global Market or ADGM is an international financial centre and a financial freeRead more
The copyright office has sought stakeholder inputs on making amendments to India’s copyright law. In this blogpost we look at some of the areas in which the law could potentially be amended. At the end of October 2020, the Registrar of Copyrights[1] sought inputs[2] from businesses on whether they think India’s copyright law requires anyRead more
To cope with burdensome airport security checks, airports are implementing innovative technologies to make passing through security easier and safer for passengers. According to the International Air Transport Association (IATA), the APAC region was expected to see an additional 2.1 billion air passengers by the close of 2036. The corresponding growth in the airport securityRead more
1. What is an AI stack? An AI stack is a reference model that lists all infrastructural components that are required to build, train, deploy and scale AI systems. An AI stack is essentially a ‘building’ made up a different ‘tech’ floors placed one over the other with each floor representing one kind of AIRead more
1. Preliminary 1.1 Google hosted the fifth edition of its annual Google for India event on 19 September 2019. Google launched a range of products and services during this event and provided an insight into the work it is doing around technology in India. India’s information technology (“IT”) minister, Ravi Shankar Prasad, was also invited byRead more