Category Archives: Cyber Law

Revenge Porn Law Contemplated in California

Posted on September 25, 2013 by Vijayashankar Na

A Bill to criminalize acts of vengence by ex-spouses/ex-boy/girl friends posting obscene pictures on the Internet is contemplated to be punished under a new law proposed in California. The proposed punishment is 6 months jail and/or US $1000 as fine. … Continue reading →

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Can we believe that RBI inadvertently missed a Banking license applicant?

Posted on September 16, 2013 by Vijayashankar Na

In what appears to be a big joke, it is reported that RBI inadvertently missed announcing the name of the Chandigarh based “KC Land &Finance” as one of the applicants to Banking license which it announced with fanfare on July … Continue reading →

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Promoting E Banking-Role of RBI

Posted on August 24, 2013 by Vijayashankar Na

RBI in its recent annual report, has lamented that 90% of payments are estimated to be collected through Cash/Cheque despite its efforts to promote E Banking. (See this report in Business Line). RBI has stated that more than 3080 crore … Continue reading →

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Mumbai High Court on Section 66A

Posted on August 20, 2013 by Vijayashankar Na

The Mumbai High Court has in a judgement opined that Section 66A can be applied even in the case of Websites. According to this report in TOI, the High Court held “Creating a website that may contain false or offensive … Continue reading →

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HIPAA-US$1.2 m damage for not sanitizing photocopier hard disk

Posted on August 15, 2013 by Vijayashankar Na

A HITECH Act violation by a health plan in New York resulted in a potential data breach of 344,579 individuals has resulted in the HHS imposition of penalty of Rs $1,215,780 as a settlement. The breach occurred when the Plan … Continue reading →

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Indian Company causes HIPAA breach

Posted on August 10, 2013 by Vijayashankar Na

An Indian contractor of a medical transcription company (M2ComSys) is said to have caused a breach of  PHI belonging to 32000 patients of US based Cogent healthcare leading to data breach notification by the US company. It is stated that … Continue reading →

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