This article briefly discusses some of the key issues that were raised in the hearings held by the U.S. Antitrust Sub-Committee with the CEOs of Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google. The Antitrust Sub-Committee (“Sub-committee”) of the U.S. House Judiciary Committee conducted a hearing to examine the alleged dominance by Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google (“GAFARead more
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What is data scraping? Data scraping (or web scraping) is a method through which a software/’bot’ is used to import any data or information from a website into a readable output format. It is generally an automated process of extracting data from a website. What are the potential legal issues with data scraping? 1. PossibilityRead more
The big tech[1] regulation debate has undergone varying degrees of change over time. It started with Microsoft’s legal battles in the 1990s when the United States-Department of Justice (“US-DOJ”) investigated complaints of the company bundling Internet Explorer with its Windows operating system on personal computers and using a pricing strategy that was an entry barrierRead more
1. Preliminary 1.1 On 12 September 2019, Facebook and the Ananta Aspen Centre organised an event titled “New rules for the internet – Shaping the digital economy”, with Sir Nicholas Clegg (Facebook vice president of global affairs and communications) as the key speaker and Mr. Baijayant Panda (Bharatiya Janata Party national vice president), as theRead more
News has it that Facebook is foraying into online remittances and will introduce a tethered digital asset named “Libra” to fuel this system. Libra will be linked with the INR (i.e. the Indian National Rupee) and each Libra will always convert to 1 INR. How will this play with the April 2018 RBI circular that imposed a deRead more
Introduction ‘Fake news’ is news, stories or hoaxes created to deliberately misinform or deceive readers. Usually, these stories are created to either influence people’s views, push a political agenda or cause confusion and can often be a profitable business for online publishers. ‘Fake news’ stories can deceive people by looking like trusted websites or using similar namesRead more
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
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
In February 2017, Whatsapp had announced its plans to introduce a UPI-based payments service in India. Since then, a number of developments have taken place with respect to the payments service, including a discussion on privacy concerns surrounding the application’s use of customer data. This post provides a timeline of all the developments that haveRead more