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Bengaluru court bars influencers from posting defamatory content about Motorola
6+ hour, 9+ min ago (292+ words) A Bengaluru civil court has passed a temporary injunction restraining various tech content creators and influencers from posting defamatory content about Motorola mobile phones on social media platforms [Motorola Mobility India Pvt Ltd v. X Corp & Ors.] Additional City Civil and…...
Deepfakes, due diligence and the new compliance burden
1+ day, 9+ hour ago (234+ words) The Intermediary Rules gave effect to this framework by prescribing due diligence requirements such as user notices, grievance redressal mechanisms, and timelines for takedown. However, the overall design remained reactive. Additional obligations apply to significant social media intermediaries. Under Rule…...
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1+ week, 3+ day ago (19+ words) Delhi High Court seeks response from MEITY, Google on plea against blocking of You Tube channel 4 PM news'Bar and Bench...
Delhi High Court awards over "152 crore damages to foreign company in patent suit over antenna technology
2+ week, 2+ day ago (466+ words) The Delhi High Court recently awarded more than "152 crore in damages to a foreign firm, Communication Components Antenna (CCA), in a patent infringement suit against the Rosenberger Group [Communication Components Antenna v. Rosenberger]. Justice Prathiba M Singh ruled that subsidiaries of…...
Walkie-talkies on Facebook Marketplace: Delhi High Court restrains CCPA from acting against Meta without hearing
3+ week, 2+ day ago (414+ words) The Delhi High Court on Wednesday asked the Central Consumer Protection Authority (CCPA) not to take any coercive action against Meta Platforms over unauthorised listing of walkie-talkies on Facebook Marketplace without granting the company a hearing. Justice Purushaindra Kumar Kaurav…...
Meta moves Delhi High Court against CCPA fine for listing walkie-talkies on Facebook Marketplace
1+ mon, 12+ hour ago (388+ words) Meta Platforms, the parent company of Facebook, has approached the Delhi High Court challenging an order issued by the Central Consumer Protection Authority (CCPA), which held that Facebook Marketplace violated several laws by listing walkie-talkies on the platform. The January…...
TRAI's crackdown on spam calls and AI-driven telemarketing
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (1030+ words) Mass scalability, with thousands of calls generated in minutes; Deceptive realism, through voice cloning and adaptive scripts; Attribution challenges, as AI systems obscure the identity of the actual sender. While TRAI's, Telecom Commercial Communications Customer Preference Regulations, 2018 (TCCCPR) address the…...
Messages on Whats App Group amount to public utterances: Punjab and Haryana High Court in obscenity case
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (662+ words) The Punjab and Haryana High Court has ruled that posting a message on a Whats App group amounts to making an "utterance in a public place" in the context of the offence of obscenity under Section 294 of the Indian Penal…...
Whats App tells Supreme Court it will implement CCI order on giving users greater say in sharing their data
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (471+ words) Whats App on Monday told the Supreme Court that it will comply with the Competition Commission of India's (CCI) directions that required the messaging platform to give users greater control over whether their data is shared with other Meta companies [Whats…...
Telecom spectrum not restructurable asset under IBC: Supreme Court in Aircel AGR insolvency dispute
2+ mon, 5+ day ago (600+ words) The Court held that material resources must be managed in a manner that subserves the common good and ownership and control of spectrum cannot be determined solely through the lens of corporate restructuring....