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Dr. Karnika Seth

Dr. Karnika Seth

B.A (Eng. Hons.), LL.B(University of Delhi)

LL.M (King’s College, University of London)

Member, CIArb (London),FICA

Ph.D.(Cyber laws), Specialisation in Computer Science (Harvard University)

Founder & Head, Corporate & Cyber Laws Practice

Chairperson, Lex Cyberia

Country Chair-G 100 Global Women leaders-AI/ML & Cybersecurity

Phone: +91-9810155766, +91-9810612496

Email: karnika@sethassociates.com

Twitter: https://twitter.com/karnikaseth

Linked In: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-karnika-seth-1100873/

Dr. Karnika Seth is an Internationally renowned cyber law expert & the founder of Seth Associates. Dr. Seth is also the Chairperson of Lex Cyberia at Seth Associates, the World’s first integrated cyberlaws research, forensics and legal consulting centre. Dr. Seth is the appointed Country Chair for G 100-Global group of Women leaders-AI/ML/Cybersecurity wing. She has advised the Government of India on strengthening the regulatory framework of cyberlaws in India and made recommendations for deliberations on the UN Convention on Cybercrimes and at the India-EU High level Roundtable, CyFy 2022. She recently drafted the proposed draft law of Artificial Intelligence of India and submitted her recommendations on Personal Data Protection bill, and the Digital India Act to the Government of India. On occasion of celebrating 75 years of India’s Independence, She was conferred the Platinum Excellence Amrit Award 2022 for excellence in New and Future Tech laws. Dr. Seth has been consistently ranked by global business community as topnotch cyberlawyer, an IT Expert & a prolific author, policymaker & educator. Dr. Seth practices law at the Supreme Court of India, Delhi High court & other legal forums and is principal legal advisor to many multinational groups and government entities. She has actively resolved many Cyber crime cases in conjunction with the law enforcement authorities in India. Her contribution to growth & development of cyberlaws internationally and in India is widely acknowledged in the corporate world and by International organisations. Dr. Seth is an empanelled Arbitrator with the World Intellectual Property Organisation, Geneva and admitted as the Member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators,London. She has been empanelled as a member of the Working Group of International Corporation for Assigned Names &Numbers (ICANN) formed to design the Policy framework impacting global domain registration services. She supports various initiatives on woman empowerment and online child safety and trains law enforcement on combating cyber crimes. She is part of expert panel of UNICEF working on children safety in the online world and actively associates with International Centre for Missing and Exploited Children (ICMEC) in its cyberawareness activities in India. She is also associated with the International Telecommunication Union’s initiatives and is a member of the global cybersecurity forum. Her expert views on cyber safety have been solicited by United Nations’s International organisations and also by the Parliament and the Ministry of Information Technology and the Ministry of Defence for strengthening the cyberlaws in India. She is part of expert panel of the World Bank and UNICEF working on children safety in the online world. Dr. Seth has been a Tedex Speaker who has spoken at more than 1000 seminars, conferences and has authored several books, e-books, white papers, legal toolkits, policy documents and recommendations for reforming cyberlaws in the country. She is empanelled as legal expert to advise National Internet Exchange of India and represents the Office of Comptroller of Certifying Authorities constituted under the IT Act, 2000.In 2013, she was appointed as legal expert to represent Indian Government in the panel formed to advise on objections to ICANN’s suggested new gTLDs.She has been consulted by the University Grants Commission of India, IGNOU, National Law school, India and other reputed educational institutions for formulation of cyber law education courses in India.

Dr. Seth’s book titled ‘Computers, Internet and New Technology Laws’ published by Lexis Nexis Butterworths elucidates the key developments in the field of Cyberlaws across many important jurisdictions, India, United States and European nations. Dr. Seth was conferred the Law Day Award from the Chief Justice of India for authoring this comprehensive reference work. On the International Women’s day, 2022, her book , Women rights against cybercrimes, a G 20 initiative,  was released by the Ministry of Information Technology, GOI. On the International Women’s day, 2022, her book , Women rights against cybercrimes, a G 20 initiative,  was released by the Ministry of Information Technology, GOI. She received the Digital Empowerment Award for the year 2015 from the Government of India for authoring the book, Protection of Children on Internet and the law Day Award 2015 from the Chief Justice of India. In 2017, Dr. Seth was conferred the National Gaurav Award for exemplary contribution to the field of cyberlaws in India. In 2017, Dr. Seth was conferred the title of Honorary professor by Amity University. Dr. Seth authored the e-filing manual to support the e-courts mission project of the Supreme Court of India and a legal toolkit, Child victims of cybercrime for National Commission for Protection of Child rights in 2018. In 2019 Dr. Seth received the Eminent CIO of India Award from the VARINDIA group. On the UN International Women’s day, she received the Great Indian Women Award in 2021 from the Indian Observer Post and the Eminent CIO of India Award in 2021. She was also conferred the title of Super Cyberwoman by Cyberpeace Foundation in 2021. In 2022, she was conferred with the Platinum Excellence Amrit Award , the Virangana Samman , and the Exceptional Women of Excellence Award by the Women Economic Forum. She has been recognised as India’s most influential cyberwarrior by Dynamic CISO group. She is also an expert trainer to law enforcement authorities in India and abroad and regularly contributes her views on the subjects in conferences, print & electronic media and television.

While cyberlaw is her core specialisation, Dr. Karnika Seth has diverse transactional experience, encompassing joint ventures, foreign collaborations, franchising and Intellectual property rights. She has acted as legal advisor to reputed multinational companies in negotiating and finalizing various business and commercial arrangements and advised the on projects for launch of products and services in the Indian Market. Dr. Seth’s area of expertise also covers International Commercial Arbitration, International Trade ,Banking,and Anti-dumping Laws. She graduated in Masters in Law from Kings College, University of London. She attained her doctorate degree in cyberlaw (Ph.D.) from NIU in 2017. She specialised in Computer Security from Harvard University in 2020.

EXPERTISE

  • Cyber Laws
  • Artificial Intelligence, blockchain
  • GDPR and data protection
  • Corporate & Commercial Law
  • International Trade Law
  • Antidumping laws
  • Launch of products & services
  • Food & Drugs laws
  • Agency and Distribution
  • Intellectual Property Law
  • International Commercial Arbitration & ADR
  • Franchising, Agency and distribution

REPRESENTATIVE TASKS

  • Advised on GDPR and contract formation for ITES Company for its data processing activities in Europe.
  • Advised on a data theft case where an ex-employee of an Indian IT company stole data of a foreign client
  • Advised on an online defamation case and enforcing right to be forgotten
  • Advised an international organisation on launching an app compliant with Indian cyberlaws in India
  • Drafted social media and IT policy for an Indian company and legal vetting of other related policies .
  • Advised medical services company on legality of delivering online health advisory services and drafted their web disclaimers, terms of use and privacy policy
  • Advisor to online gaming website portal, on compliance with Internet laws, e-commerce laws, contract law, consumer law and privacy laws in India, particularly advising on business method, drafting of terms of use, disclaimers, privacy policy, confidentiality and vendor contracts
  • Advisor to a Swiss company hosting a social networking site for Cyberlaw India compliance issues.
  • Successfully represented an Indian exporter in a domain name dispute before World Intellectual Property Organization -an ICANN dispute resolution policy matter.
  • Acted for the Escorts Group in a cybercrime investigation matter before Indian courts
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AFFILIATIONS

  • Arbitrator, WIPO, Geneva
  • Member, Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, London
  • Fellow, Indian Council of Arbitration
  • Member of the Indian Chamber of Commerce and Industry
  • Member, Supreme Court of India Bar Association
  • Panel Expert, Nitron circle of experts
  • Member, International Association of IT lawyers
  • Member of the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry
  • Member of the International Editorial Advisory Board of ‘International Journal of Cyber Crime and Criminal Justice
  • Member of British Council Alumni Association India.
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RECENT SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS

  • The second consultation on the Digital India Act , MEITY, Government of India, Mumbai, May 23, 2023
  • Panel Discussion-India’s Tech-Xistential Questions: Identifying and Predicting Regulatory Patterns, April 14, 2023
  • Webinar on NBT Cyber Safety Shield, April 16, 2023
  • Panel Discuss on rising cybercrimes, Seminar on New Age Risk, FICCI April 19, 2023
  • EU- India deliberations on role of emerging tech and cybersecurity at ESIWA ORF Roundtable 2, March, 2023
  • Cyber training session on changing contours of Cyber law globally and emerging technologies in cyberwar and cyber-attacks, National Defence College, March 6, 2023
  • Gender Equality vs Gender Equity, March 8, 2023
  • Lecture series-Phishing and Financial frauds, CIET NCERT, 10 Feb 2023
  • Interactions held with senior Telecom Ministry officials today on the new Telecom bill, February 9, 2023
  • Artificial Intelligence and Metaverse, ICFAI, Law School, Hyderabad, FEBRUARY 23, 2023
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MEDIA INTERVIEWS

Ms Karnika Seth, Cyber lawyer & Partner, Seth Associates regularly contributes her expert views on current legal issues particularly related to Cyber Laws and Intellectual Property Rights. She recently spoke on cyber law issue of Internet censorship in India & China and Consumer Protection laws in a series of panel discussions broadcasted by various Television channels including CNN IBN and NDTV

  • Prefiltering guidelines and intermediary liability, News 24, Oct 6,2022
  • Special program on QR code Frauds in India, ZEE Business, 5 Oct 2022
  • Privacy concerns in the Telco bill, The Telegraph, 29 Oct 2022
  • Police deployment around chandigarh university, Mirror now, Sep 19,2022
  • Did Rumour mongering lead to protests, Mirror Now, Sept 19,2022
  • Podcast on curbing online sex trafficking of women , Missing links trust, Spotify, Sept, 5, 2022
  • Regulatory lens back on OTT apps-, The Telegraph,2 Sep 2022
  • India has law to tackle trolling, cyber extortion, Mirror Now ,July 26,2022
  • Cryptocurrency frauds on the rise, July 13.2022
  • Beware of phishing attacks, June 25,2022
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PUBLICATIONS

  •  A blog on Importance of data ethics in an Artificial Intelligence driven world , SCC Online, 27 April 2023 Read More
  •  Drafted the Proposed draft law on Artificial Intelligence in India (voluntary initiative) Read More
  •  Recommendations of Dr. Karnika Seth on the Draft Digital India Act, Read More
  •  India’s Telecommunication Bill, 2022 – A critique Read More
  •  Authored a book titled ‘Women Rights Against Cybercrimes’ on International Women’s Day published by Ministry of Information Technology, GOI Read More
  •  Authored article 'Fending off the cybersharks', Equatorline vol pg 7-15
  •  India Business Guide 2022
  •  Authored e-book titled Media trial
  •  Authored e-book titled Fake News
  •  Authored e-book titled Electronic Evidence
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