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
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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
Hello colleagues, We are in the roaring 20s! 2019 was kind in that it brought challenges and victories alike. It allowed us to engage more meaningfully with you and with the tech policy community generally, through this Tech Ticker. We hope that this project has served its purpose of keeping busy tech enthusiasts abreastRead more
Hi all, We are happy to be back with more tech related developments from the first month of this new decade. This month, the National Democratic Alliance – II (“NDA-II”) government released its Union Budget and India’s Economic Survey. We were able to cobble up our thoughts on it for you here. Discussions on the National Cyber Security Policy 2020 also gained momentum after it was reported that the government is making itsRead more
Dear colleague, A very happy new year! 2019 kept us busy at Ikigai Law, not least because the Indian government introduced the Personal Data Protection Bill, 2019 in Parliament. This proposed law differs in key aspects from an earlier version prepared by the government appointed Justice Srikrishna Committee. The government’s bill has now beenRead more
Hi all, November was a busy and exciting month for Ikigai Law. We held a roundtable on the government’s proposed amendments to the intermediary guidelines and their effect on intermediary safe harbour in Bangalore, in partnership with Inc42. In an effort to lend some clarity to discussions on non-personal data in the country, our team explored data marketplaces as a means of sharing data. Vijayant led workRead more
Hi all, This month from India’s tech policy space: Important developments The winter session of Parliament will commence on 18 November 2019 and end on 13 December 2019. The upcoming winter session is shorter than the previous two Parliament winter sessions which went on till January. In other news, the transport minister Nitin Gadkari has said that India should aim to become a hub for electric vehicles manufacturing in the coming years. In the business world, Walmart’s chief executive officer,Read more