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US ban on Anthropic's Fable 5 & Mythos 5 to put Indian IT services firms at competitive disadvantage
US restrictions on foreign access to Anthropic's advanced AI models, Mythos and Fable 5, are creating a significant competitive disadvantage for Indian enterprises and IT service providers. This exclusion, particularly from Fable 5's coding capabilities, raises concerns about digital equity and strategic dependency, as Indian data contributed to the models' value.
Chinese Wall may stem India tech flows for electronics and automobile
New Chinese regulations on technology transfers may affect India's electronics and automotive component manufacturing plans. Indian companies are seeking clarity from Chinese partners. Executives fear delays in crucial areas like display manufacturing and electric vehicle components. While some expect minor delays, others foresee significant disruptions in talent flow and joint ventures.
GenAI, legally: Law firms take up new tech’s case
Firms are using AI tools for contract review and analysis, due diligence, legal research, drafting, predictive legal analytics, knowledge management and automation. Additionally, AI is being leveraged for litigation support, flagging risks, legal database querying and retrieval, email retrieval, summarisation, and translation.
Industry wants open discussion on fresh Broadcast Bill draft
The media industry anticipates the ministry of information and broadcasting (MIB) to conduct an open and transparent consultation process before releasing a new draft of the Broadcast Services Regulation Bill. This expectation follows criticism towards the MIB for its opaque handling of the second draft circulated to certain stakeholders at the end of July.
States don’t have powers to constitute fact-check bodies: legal experts
Experts are of the view that Karnataka's decision to implement a cybersecurity function without directions from the central government appears to be ultra vires and void.
Trai’s proposal to regulate OTT concerning, may threaten privacy, end encryption: Experts
OTT services are currently regulated under the IT Act, which will soon be replaced by the proposed Digital India Bill.
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What the Personal Data Protection Bill means for the average Indian
India is in the final stages of enacting a privacy legislation that will protect the personal data of its citizens. A glimpse into what will change, and for whom, after the Bill is signed into law.
Joint committee calls for one body to regulate personal, non-personal data
The Joint Committee of Parliament (JCP) in its report on the Personal Data Protection Bill (2019) has sought the establishment of a single regulatory authority to oversee both personal and non-personal data and recommended that the centre, in consultation with sectoral regulators, prepare an extensive policy on data localisation.
Social media platforms, news publishers awaiting clarity on rules linked to news and current affairs
A lawyer working for a media company said as per the rules, social media platforms will have to clearly inform news publishers that if needed, they may have to furnish details of their social media handles and users to the ministry.
Messaging apps may lose biggest USP
To enable traceability, firms may have to dilute end-to-end encryption
New intermediary rules to have significant implications for social media platforms in India: Legal, tech experts
Making a distinction between social media intermediaries and ‘significant’ social media intermediaries based on the number of users on the platforms, the government said the rules require the significant social media intermediaries to follow additional due diligence
Real-money gaming companies face an increasing hostile regulatory landscape
Tamil Nadu was the third south Indian state to ban these games, after Telangana and Andhra Pradesh, and Karnataka is considering a similar move. The existence of contradictory regulations across Indian states has confused companies and investors.
Future still uncertain, old TikTok videos flood other social media platforms
Old TikTok videos with the app’s watermark on them can be seen on other apps in a move that may have potential legal ramifications for these content creators and the apps uploading them. ByteDance owned TikTok owns the IP on content created using their proprietary tools.
MNCs to gain tremendously from sharing of non-personal data: Kris Gopalakrishnan
An authority which will be set-up to regulate NPD will decide what constitutes a fair or an unfair request for data from a competing company, Infosys co-founder Kris Gopalakrishnan said on Thursday. “Any such transition will be seen negatively sometimes to start with,” he added.
Net neutrality laws likely to be tested in clearance for Facebook-Jio deal
While India has strong Net neutrality laws, they might be tested in a major way given the magnitude of the deal.
India's new FDI rules may open new flashpoint with China
India's move to tweak FDI rules to curb Chinese takeovers may open a new flashpoint between the two neighbours.
Agencies may need court order to trace social media messages
Social media intermediaries — with more than 5 million registered users — have to trace the original sender of a message when asked by a government agency armed with an order from a judicial magistrate court or a higher court.
Activists rally against ‘illegal’ surveillance of CAA protests
Ask Delhi Police to halt use of facial recognition tech to identify demonstrators, point to unlawful use of drones. The officer, however, insisted the force was “not violating privacy”. India is among the world’s top three surveillance states, according to a recent study released by UK-based firm.
Data policy tweaks set to keep India Inc busy in 2020
The Bill, aimed at giving individuals more control over their data, has not proposed a timeline for the implementation of the rules. Government sources have stressed that since the Bill was based on the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation, foreign technology companies may not need more than two years.
IT firms have no data on proposed Protection Bill
The government had said it would take up the bill on priority in its second term.
‘Critical’ data list will be revised with time; move may trouble companies
Experts say updating the list for data storage within India time and again likely to create uncertainty.
Govt to ping EU to align its data law with GDPR
The EU Commission and Japan signed a similar deal of equivalency to enable safe data transfers, based on a high level of protection of personal data.
China's ByteDance to store Indian data locally after MPs raise concerns on privacy, national security
Several Parliamentarians, including Congress' Shashi Tharoor, BJD's Pinaki Misra and TDP’s Jayadev Galla, have accused short-video app TikTok of illegally collecting and sharing data with China.
Tech policy to be predictable; privacy bills, focus on local internet and hardware ecosystem
Facebook, Google, Twitter and ByteDance are expected to take a hit from personal data protection bill.
Tech policy to be predictable; privacy bills, focus on local internet and hardware ecosystem
“It’s going to be predictable 5 years on where the technology policy is moving,” said Nikhil Narendran, Partner at Trilegal.
Firms scramble to reply to draft ecommerce policy within a week
There is a global backlash against US technology companies that are being accused of abusing their market power through their data collection practices.
Govt surveillance and data governance and sovereignty to dominate tech policy debate in India
Most foreign companies providing digital services escape the Indian tax net because they don’t have a corporate office here.
Plan to tweak IT rules may widen rift between govt, social media companies
The draft amendments to the rules under Section 79 aimed at curbing fake news were released for public consultation.
Indian-origin celebrity chef sacked over anti-Islam tweet in Dubai
Kochhar, 48, the second Indian to receive a Michelin star, is well known for his Rang Mahal restaurant at the JW Marriott Marquis Hotel, Dubai.
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