Tag: internet
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Need for the Re-Conceptualization of Human Rights in the Digital Era
Our lives are now controlled by digital technologies that subconsciously influence our judgments and have a bearing on our decisions, freedom, and perception of things. Digital technology has transformed the means through which human rights are both exercised and violated by affecting our freedom of speech and expression, association, right to privacy, and right against…
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The Anuradha Bhasin Judgment and the Conditional Status of the Right to the Internet
The preamble to the Indian Constitution provides for the liberty of thought and expression to each and every citizen of the country. This solemn resolve is envisaged in Article 19(1)(a) of the Constitution which provides for freedom of speech and expression to its citizens. This freedom is restricted by Article 19(2) which provides for reasonable…
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Cyber Crimes to be Penalised: An Overview of the Report by the Expert Committee
By Rabia Mohamed Ismail Abdul Rahim, NUALS, Kochi. In 2005, the Supreme Court in Shreya Singhal v. Union of India struck down Section 66A of the Information Technology Act, which penalised the sending of offensive messages through computer resource or other communication services, thus leading to leniency with regard to laws governing penalisation for the delivering…
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Net Neutrality: The Free Choice Conundrum
By Rashmi Singh, ILS Law College, Pune. ‘Net Neutrality’ is the word of the hour. There has been a lot of debate on the said topic in recent times. It has probably been so much in the news that one might believe that India has had internet since at least from its independence. Online campaigns,…
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Net Neutrality: An Analysis
By Sania Siddiqui, Amity Law School, Jaipur. What’s net neutrality? It is the principle that all traffic on the Internet must be treated equally by Internet service providers. Net Neutrality is a terrible, technical sounding phrase, and suffers for the lack of an easy definition. Until now, you and I could use the internet data we paid…
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Cyber Law: An Overview
By Sagarika Chandel, KIIT School of Law, Bhubaneswar. “The modern thief can steal more with a computer than with a gun. Tomorrow’s terrorist may be able to do more damage with a keyboard than a bomb”. -National Research Council, USA “Computers at Risk” (1991) Internet in India has been ever growing at a fast pace…
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National Laws on Free Speech and the Internet
By Sanya Darakhshan Kishwar, Central University of Bihar, Gaya. “Give me the liberty to know, to utter and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties” — John Milton But stop and think a while is it all to give full freedom of speech and expression to a person or citizen. Is it correct…