Monthly Archives: January 2019

Virtual Cards for Credit Cards also

RBI has issued  guidelines on tokenisation for debit / credit / prepaid card transactions as a part of its s endeavour to enhance the safety and security of the payment systems in the country.  Accordingly RBI will permit  authorised card payment networks to offer … Continue reading

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Limited Liability also for Cyber crimes in PPI

The Reserve Bank of India has issued a circular “Customer Protection – Limiting Liability of Customers in Unauthorised Electronic Payment Transactions in Prepaid Payment Instruments (PPIs) issued by Authorised Non-banks” on January 4, 2019. This is similar to the circular … Continue reading

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An innovative way of implementing the Intermediary Guidelines under Section 79

We are all aware of UDRP or INDRP which is a Dispute Resolution Policy adopted by all Domain Name Registrars for resolving disputes arising out of conflicting domain name registrations. The policy is embedded into all domain name registration contracts … Continue reading

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Why Pull Up Central Government when the mistake lies with the State Governments?

The Supreme Court of India is hearing a petition filed by the Internet Freedom Foundation on an allegation that 22 people have been arrested under Section 66A of ITA 2000/8 which has been scrapped by the Supreme Court in the … Continue reading

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Is Bigbrother Watching you?

Here is a link to an article published in India Legal on Sec 69 and Sec 79 ITA 2008 controversies which are doing the rounds. http://www.indialegallive.com/cyber-security/is-big-brother-watching-59021 Naavi

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Allahabad High Court admits PIL against Section 69 notice …2

[This is in continuation of the earlier article] The Allahabad High Court accepting the petition challenging the MHA notification on Section 69 is typical of the cases that display an attitude of some petitioners to move the top courts on … Continue reading

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