Category Archives: Cyber Law

The Role of “Notified Digital Evidence Examiners”

On 2nd January 2017, the Government of India came out with a notification under Section 79A of ITA 2008 on a pilot scheme for notification of organizations under Section 79A as “Digital Evidence Examiners”. Since then some news papers are … Continue reading

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Traffic Light Protocol

Classification of documents before distribution is one of the important activities of data managers in organizations. The better part of Information Security lies in properly classifying a document and tagging them properly for every end user to understand what he … Continue reading

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RBI amendment means…Digi Real Notes Can now be issued by Corporates:

I refer to the article “Here is how the Currency Shortage can vanish in a jiffy with “Digi-Real Currency” in which a solution to meet the current crisis of shortage of currency notes was discussed. One of the amendments that RBI … Continue reading

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“Banks to report security breaches in two hours?”..Is it a Joke? or Fake News?

A report in the times group of papers today, it was stated that the Government has mandated that Banks need to report “Breaches” in their systems within 2 hours to the Government. TOI in its article titled “Government asks banks … Continue reading

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How Ze-Mo Coupons can address the issue of currency shortage after December 31st

Around 2003, the undersigned had come up with a solution named “Digital Value Imprinted Instrument System” (DVIIS). This was a “Brick and Click” solution to many of the problems of physical instruments which have a monetary value including “Currency”, “Stamps”, … Continue reading

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Does DMCA pose a risk to Indian hosting companies also?

When a hosting company hosts user content, there is always a risk of the hosting company being charged for abetting the copyright infringement if any by the user. In India, intermediaries are subject to the “Due Diligence” requirement under Section … Continue reading

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