On April 18, 2022, the Delhi High Court held that Domain Name Registrars are intermediaries under sec. 2(1)(w) of India’s 2000 Information Technology Act. Justice C. Hari Shankar rejected the injunction filed by Snapdeal which challenged Domain Name Registrars for using its trademark in domain names...
One of the main reasons attributed to the relative success of most East Asian democracies’ strategies in handling the COVID-19 pandemic is the widespread adoption of the government-backed COVID-19 apps. In the Philippines, several COVID-19 tracker apps have likewise surfaced. Recently, the...
For we, which now behold these present days,
Have eyes to wonder, but lack tongues to praise.
----William Shakespeare
When in the Chronicle of Wasted Time
On May 4th, when many of us were celebrating the Star Wars day, either virtually or geared up with COVID-proof stormtrooper...
New Delhi is inching closer to recommending regulations that would require social media companies and instant messaging app providers to help law enforcement agencies identify users who have posted content — or sent messages — it deems questionable, two people familiar with the matter told...
The Shreya Singhal judgment of the Supreme Court of India in 2015 was a seminal case with respect to intermediary liability law in the country. The court ordered that online content from social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter can only be removed through a court order or upon government...
In a landmark ruling earlier this month, India’s Supreme Court held that citizens’ right to freedom of speech and rights to carry out business using the internet are constitutionally protected. From The Indian Express.
Three years after rights owner Sohu sued Baidu for both direct and indirect copyright infringement of Sohu's hit web series 匆匆那年 (namely, the fleet of time, 2014), Baidu won on appeal at Jiangsu High People’s Court after the 2018 defeat at a lower court.
The Court held that users’ uploading...
Security and encryption experts from around the world are joining a number of organizations to call on India to reconsider its proposed amendments to local intermediary liability rules. From TechCrunch.
Singapore's Protection from Online Falsehoods and Manipulation Act (POFMA) has been invoked for the first, second, and third time, all in the space of one week.
The government issued two Correction Directions - one to Brad Bowyer, an opposition politician, and another to Alex Tan, a former...
Five months after it was passed in Singapore Parliament, the Protection from Online Falsehoods and Manipulation Act (POFMA) came into effect on Wednesday, October 2. Also came online was the POFMA office, the administrative arm of this new law, which is affiliated with Infocomm Media Development...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Indian government, in its first term, began by positioning India as a global technology hub. From The Diplomat.