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AI and Healthcare in India: Looking Forward
- December 16, 2017
This Report provides an overview of the proceedings of the Roundtable on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and healthcare in India: Looking Forward (hereinafter referred to as ‘the Roundtable’), conducted at The Energy Resource Institute (TERI), in Bangalore on November 30, 2017.
Read more →Breeding misinformation in virtual space
- December 08, 2017
A well-informed citizenry and institutions that provide good information are fundamental to a functional democracy.
Read more →GDPR and India: A Comparative Analysis
- November 28, 2017
At present, companies world over are in the process of assessing the impact that EU General Data Protection Regulations (“GDPR”) will have on their businesses.
Read more →Counter Comments on TRAI's Consultation Paper on Privacy, Security and Ownership of Data in Telecom Sector
- November 23, 2017
The Centre for Internet & Society (CIS) has commented on the Consultation Paper on Privacy, Security and Ownership of Data in Telecom Sector published by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India on August 9, 2017.
Read more →Breach Notifications: A Step towards Cyber Security for Consumers and Citizens
- November 14, 2017
Through the Digital India project the Indian government is seeking to establish India as a digital nation at the forefront. Increasingly, this means having good cyber-security policies in place and enabling a prosperous business environment for companies that implement sound cyber-security policies. This paper will look at one such policy, which enables investments in cyber-security for IT products and services through giving consumers a way to hold business owners and public authorities to account when their security fails.
Read more →A Comparison of Legal and Regulatory Approaches to Cyber Security in India and the United Kingdom
- November 12, 2017
This report is the first part of a three part series of reports that compares the Indian cyber security framework with that of the U.K, U.S and Singapore.
Read more →Why Presumption of Renewal is Unsuitable for the Current Registry Market Structure
- October 29, 2017
With the recent and much protested renewal of the .net legacy Top-Level-Domain (TLD), the question of the appropriate method of renewal has again come to the forefront. While this seems relatively uncontroversial to most, Padma Venkataraman, a law student and intern at CIS looks at presumptive renewal through a critical lens.
Read more →CIS’ Efforts Towards Greater Financial Disclosure by ICANN
- October 28, 2017
CIS has been working towards enhancing transparency and accountability at ICANN since 2014. While initial efforts have resulted in ICANN revealing its sources of income in a granular fashion in 2015, we are yet to see this level of transparency become a default approach within ICANN. Here, Padma Venkataraman chronologically maps CIS’ efforts at enhancing financial transparency and accountability at ICANN, while providing an outline of what remains to be done.
Read more →ICANN’s Problems with Accountability and the .WEB Controversy
- October 24, 2017
The Post-Transition IANA promised enhanced transparency and accountability to the global multistakeholder community. The series of events surrounding the .WEB auction earlier this year has stirred up issues relating to the lack of transparency and accountability of ICANN. This post examines the .WEB auction as a case study to better understand exact gaps in accountability.
Read more →Revisiting Per Se vs Rule of Reason in Light of the Intel Conditional Rebate Case
- October 04, 2017
Recent developments in the European Union (EU) regarding the antitrust case against Intel have brought back into focus two rules of competition law analysis- the per se rule and the rule of reason. In light of the decision by the Court of Justice of the European Union in the matter, this Note examines the application of the two rules to the case in detail. Additionally, it analyzes the statutory and judicial basis for the rules in the context of the EU and Indian competition law regimes, and concludes by identifying some areas in which these concepts would be relevant.
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