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Analysing Dipak Ranjan Mukherjee vs. Ministry of Commerce & Industry in Context of Transparency, Privacy and the RTI Act

SpicyIP

In an interesting development, the CIC recently rejected an RTI application concerning information on IPRS’ compliance with the Copyright Act, upholding privacy for private organizations and confidentiality of inquiry reports that have not been tabled in front of the Parliament. Kartikeya is a second-year law student of the LL.B.

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Legality of Recording Phone Calls in India & Admissibility of Such Evidence Before the Court

IP and Legal Filings

The question of intruding into privacy arises when someone eavesdrops on the conversation of participants of the call. 1] Of course, tapping a person’s phone constitutes a serious invasion of their privacy and violates Articles 19 and 21 of the Constitution. [2] Privacy depends on individual decisions dictating a way of life.

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Kim Dotcom Not Happy, Says ‘Mega Mass Piracy Report’ is On the Way

TorrentFreak

Even after the US Government tore the service down in 2012, the trio worked hard to launch New Zealand file-hosting service Mega in 2013, aiming to emulate Megaupload’s success, minus the legal bills. That certainly wasn’t the case when users were invited to join the privacy-focused site when it launched.

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[Guest post] China Passes Its First Comprehensive Data Protection Law

The IPKat

Upon that, The IPKat is delighted to host the following guest post co-authored by Anja Geller (PhD candidate at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität and Junior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition) and Zihao Li (PhD candidate at CREATe, University of Glasgow, on privacy and data protection in the Chinese Civil Code).

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Game On! Bright Data Scores Major Victory in Web-Scraping Dispute with Meta (Guest Blog Post)

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

2012), Docket No. 2019) (stating that “[t]he fact that the [confidentiality] Agreement does not state a time limitation, but instead applies forever, further supports a finding that it is unenforceable”); Howard Schultz & Assocs. The 2009 Facebook Terms included the following clause: “accessing or using our website. Meta’s Opp.

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Journey Through “Octobers” on SpicyIP (2005 – Present) 

SpicyIP

In an October 2012 post, Kruttika Vijay highlighted the Supreme Court’s concerns over the lack of transparency in clinical trials in India. It bears noting, however, that confidentiality may be a valid concern and shouldn’t be just disregarded for transparency alone. Whither Clinical Trial Data?:

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Collaborating with the Federal System in Protecting Against International Cybertheft

JIPEL Copyright Blog

For example, European Medicines Agency reported that hackers accessed some confidential data on the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine. 2012), the court asserted that trade secret misappropriation issues should be solved under trade secret law rather than CFAA. The CISA governs the shared cybersecurity information and excludes any privacy data.