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Part I - Who is Regulated, and How? 1. Background The rise of 'Big Tech' companies over the past two decades has led to an understandable clamor to regulate them. [...]

India's efforts to overhaul their technology laws continues apace, with a proposed addition to its antitrust laws focusing on digital businesses. On March 12, 2024, the Indian Government released a [...]

BTG Legal recently held a brainstorming session with various general counsels. The participants raised quite a few interesting questions on the nuances of the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023. [...]

The draft Digital Personal Data Protection Bill, 2022 ('DPDP Bill') was released for public consultation on November 18, 2022. Post public consultation, the DPDB Bill was revised and put before [...]

The ongoing regulatory tussle in India relating to the control of online content has spread to the online gaming space. The Indian government recently notified amendments to the Information Technology [...]

With great power comes great responsibility. In privacy terms, this can be translated to with consent comes protecting one's privacy. Today, we visit the primary basis that allows entities to [...]

On the 4th day of Privacy Week, we examine the status of children's data under the Indian privacy regime. Ensuring a child's privacy is the joint responsibility of their parents/guardians [...]

The year 2022 was an eventful year for tech businesses. Indian tech companies geared up for increased regulations, at the same time being faced with a reality check on their [...]

On January 02, 2023, the (Indian) Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology ('MEITY') released a draft amendment to the Information Technology (Intermediaries Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code), Rules, 2021 [...]

[This article is the second article in a two-part series on the subject. You may read the first article, Third Time's the Charm? Unpacking the draft Digital Personal Data Protection [...]

Ever since the Indian Supreme Court recognized informational privacy as part of the fundamental Right to Life in 2017, Indian lawmakers have been attempting to develop a new data protection [...]

Last week India released a new draft Digital Personal Data Protection Bill, 2022 ('2022 Bill'). The 2022 Bill follows a previous draft bill that was first released in 2018, revised [...]

India moved to overhaul its ageing telecommunications laws in late September 2022, by releasing a new draft Telecommunications Bill, 2022 ('Telecom Bill'). This Bill would repeal and replace laws that [...]

We bring you the latest chapter in the ongoing struggle around regulating online gaming and 'Real Money Gaming' in India. In 2021, you will remember, the state of Tamil Nadu [...]

Like the flying car or the new 'Game of Thrones' novel, India's new data privacy law had been described as being 'almost ready' and 'a few months away' for a [...]

The Indian advertising landscape has changed substantively since 2019 when a new consumer protection law was adopted. On June 9, 2022, the CCPA issued the Guidelines for Prevention of Misleading [...]

More than 4 years after the Indian Supreme Court declared informational privacy to be a fundamental right, a new draft data privacy law for India is closer than ever. The [...]

Context One of the biggest impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic has been on children, their education, and their playtime. Restrictions on physical gatherings mean that e-learning and edu-tech platforms have [...]

Background Coming as it did between two waves of the COVID-19 pandemic in mid-2020 and early 2021, the 12 October 2020 power outage in Mumbai is comparatively less remembered. The [...]

In September, 2021, the Government of Karnataka passed the Karnataka Police (Amendment) Bill, 2021 ('Amendment') which amended the Karnataka Police Act, 1963, to outlaw 'any act on risking money or [...]

The Indian Information Technology Act, 2000 ('IT Act') designates the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team ('CERT-In') to serve as the national agency for safeguarding cyber space in India. CERT-In can [...]

Virtual currency ('VC'), like cryptocurrency, is a form of currency that stores data on a digital ledger (called the 'blockchain'). The transfer of crypto happens privately, through a peer-to-peer method, [...]

Calendar year 2021 saw a number of regulatory developments, some expected and some surprising, that will shape the Indian digital business ecosystem in interesting ways. The global pandemic continued to [...]

Over the past decade India's vibrant payment ecosystem has grown by leaps and bounds. The surge of online platforms (e-commerce, OTT, etc.) coupled with 'hassle-free' payment channels (i.e., digital wallets, [...]

Indian data privacy laws are in the process of being overhauled following the Indian Supreme Court's 2017 ruling holding that informational privacy is a fundamental right. The first iteration of [...]

Introduction The last decade has seen great leaps in mobile usage and Internet penetration in India. A consequence of the ubiquity of mobile devices and the Internet has been the [...]

In a significant development in the implementation of the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021 ('IT Rules'), the High Court of Bombay ('Court') on August [...]

On June 23, 2021, the Indian Telecom Ministry's Department of Telecommunications ('DoT') released a revised set of Guidelines for Other Service Providers ('OSPs') ('New Guidelines'). OSP regulations were significantly relaxed [...]

Cloud computing allows users to access and work with data stored on remote networks. The client side front end infrastructure (laptops/desktops, etc.), connect to backend cloud storage, applications, and services [...]

The internet has revolutionized the way we interact; however, it has also brought with it a host of problems such as hate speech, terrorist recruitment, fake news, illegal lobbying, and [...]