This is the fourth article in the series covering cyber laws of various countries. The previous articles have covered countries such as Japan, New Zealand and Norway. This article offers an overview of cyber crime and laws in Nepal. Nepal … Read More
In the first article of this series, we briefly explored autonomy from various perspectives such as legal, technological, and philosophical. It lays down the groundwork for our discussions to follow in the upcoming articles of this series on the personhood of … Read More
Over the course of the last couple of years, a majority of the research work that I have taken up has been focused on autonomous systems. While there is still plenty of existing literature that I have not explored, I … Read More
In our last few articles, we have made an attempt to explore laws and regulations on children’s online safety. From the UK’s age appropriate design code to parental consent and personal information in COPPA, we have also covered PDPB in … Read More
According to a recent Kaspersky report, India saw an increment of 37% in the number of cyber attacks in Q1 2020, as compared to Q4 2019. While the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has increased our dependence on internet-enabled services, threats have … Read More
The Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (COPPA) imposes certain requirements on online service providers that seek to collect personal information of children. This article is in continuation with my previous article that elaborated COPPA’s privacy policy and parental … Read More
DigiLocker, as the name suggests, is a digital locker for all your e-documents that are issued by the Indian Government. After you enable it, you won’t have to carry all the paperwork everywhere you go. You’ll just need an internet … Read More
This is my third article in the series covering cyber laws of various countries. Through this series, the objective is to discuss what they are doing to deal with technology-facilitated crimes. The first and second articles covered New Zealand and … Read More
Children account for one-third of the global internet user base. In the eyes of the law, a child’s “consent” has often been insufficient. I am sure you have seen that most of the Indian websites do not consider a user’s … Read More