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Recently, the Madras High Court voiced concerns over the “pornographic and inappropriate content” being circulated through the app TikTok and directed the Centre to ban it. The court also asked the government if it would enact a statute like the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act in the US. Now, the Chinese company behind the app,… Continue reading Regulate, don’t ban TikTok, Times of India, March 2019

You might think India is living it up in the digital age, and then comes news of a ban on and the consequent arrests of people playing ‘PlayerUnknown’s BattleGrounds’, an online video game. The game, widely known as PUBG, is a first-person shooter game that begins with 100 players being airdropped into a large play… Continue reading Arrested for playing PubG? The Times of India, March 2019

A boy’s suicide this week in southern India after his mother scolded him for playing a popular online game has inflamed a national debate over whether the game should be banned. The 16-year-old’s father demanded a ban on PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, known by the acronym PUBG, after his son hanged himself from a ceiling fan at… Continue reading Can playing PUBG be a criminal offense?

Mozilla, the not-for-profit entity behind the web browser Firefox, has called out the Narendra Modi government’s perceived attempt to stifle free speech over the Internet. The Centre has proposed to introduce rules that will require social media and e-commerce platforms to proactively take down “unlawful” user content that the government or its agencies determine to… Continue reading Legal ‘hole’ in online draft, (4 January 2019, The Telegraph)

Jammu & Kashmir State Judicial Academy (SJA) organised a training programme here today on Cyber Law in which Judicial Officers, Public Prosecutors and Investigating Officers participated. Simultaneously, the programme was conducted through video link at Conference Hall, High Court Complex in Srinagar. On the initiative of Chief Justice Gita Mittal, renowned experts on Cyber Law:… Continue reading Jammu & Kashmir State Judicial Academy “Training on Cyber law” (29 December 2018)

Earlier this month, a strange incident was reported from Uttar Pradesh’s Noida where a UPI user reportedly lost Rs 6.8 lakh from his State Bank of India (SBI) savings account. The victim lodged a police complaint, informing that the money was transacted 7 times from his bank account during the last two months and he… Continue reading UPI user in Noida loses Rs 6.8 lakh from SBI account: Why it happened and how to avoid such fraud (28 December 2018, Zee business)