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National School of Law India University and the Delegation of European Union to India jointly organized a workshop at Competition Commission of India in New Delhi from October 19 - 21, 2016. Anubha Sinha and Rohini Lakshané participated and made presentations.
The workshop was organized under the broader EU-India project titled "Capacity Building Initiative in Competition Area under Trade Development Programme" sponsored jointly by European Union Delegation and National Law School of India University, Bengaluru.
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Google manipulating search results? The Competition Commission is on its case.
The article by Arindam Mukherjee was published by Outlook on October 23, 2016. Nehaa Chaudhari was quoted.

G’s Global Woes
Google’s problems aren’t restricted to India. It is facing similar cases around the world.

The extended DDoS attacks over the past few days that triggered widespread outages and Internet congestion are more than a mere annoyance. Rather, these instances have proven to be increasingly sophisticated efforts to strike at core networking protocols—the infrastructure that makes the Internet operate—to render large portions of the network inoperable or inaccessible.

Paper by Anne Lundgren in “Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy”: “In the networked information and knowledge-based economy and society, the notions of ‘open’ and ‘openness’ are used in a variety of contexts; open source, open access, open economy, open government, open innovation – just to name a few. This paper aims at discussing openness and developing a taxonomy that may be used to analyse the concept of openness. Are there different qualities of openness?

Book edited by Eleanor Jupp, Jessica Pykett, and Fiona M.

Book by Bart Custers: “Given the popularity of drones and the fact that they are easy and cheap to buy, it is generally expected that the ubiquity of drones will significantly increase within the next few years. This raises questions as to what is technologically feasible (now and in the future), what is acceptable from an ethical point of view and what is allowed from a legal point of view. Drone technology is to some extent already available and to some extent still in development.

Thomas Shafee in The Conversation: “Health professionals have a duty to improve the accuracy of medical entries in Wikipedia, according to a letter published today in Lancet Global Health, because it’s the first port of call for people all over the world seeking medical

Book by Shin’ichi Konomi and George Roussos: “In recent years, the presence of ubiquitous computing has increasingly integrated into the lives of people in modern society. As these technologies become more pervasive, new opportunities open for making citizens’ environments more comfortable, convenient, and efficient.

South Korea’s Personal Information Protection Act (“PIPA”), promulgated in 2011 and subsequently amended, has been described as the “most innovative” and “toughest” data privacy law in Asia.

A total of 32 lakh debit cards across 19 banks could have been compromised on account of a purported fraud, the National Payment Corporation of India said in a statement.
The article by Alex Mathew was published by Bloomberg on October 20, 2016. Udbhav Tiwari was quoted.

There has never been a greater need for critical discussion of technology and society in Asia. Everything from ethics in artificial intelligence, to consolidating social platform dynamics, to smart cities development and mobile penetration, to local start up innovation and global governance and policy issues—these trends all pose opportunities and challenges to the way we live today.

Am Institut für Informations-, Telekommunikations- und Medienrecht, Zivilrechtliche Abteilung wird ab dem 01.01.2017 eine
 
Studentische Hilfskraft (m/w)

mit einer Arbeitszeit von 5 Stunden / Woche gesucht.
Die Einstellung ist befristet. Eine längere Zusammenarbeit ist erwünscht.

Ante los integrantes de la Comisión de Educación de la Cámara de Diputados, el Rector de la U. de Chile y presidente del Consorcio de Universidades del Estado de Chile (Cuech), planteó los elementos clave y las deficiencias del proyecto de Reforma a la Educación Superior, entre ellos, un Estado neutral ante sus propios planteles y una iniciativa legal que "pareciera representar un peligro real de perpetuar la situación existente, permitiendo la mantención de un sistema de mercado". Llevando la posición de las universidades estatales, es que el Rector de la U.

La posibilidad de revertir la segregación de una ciudad del tamaño y las características de Santiago, con una amplia periferia con bajo acceso a servicios y deficiente infraestructura, es una materia que ha generado intensos debates políticos, movilizaciones sociales, y también investigación desde la academia.

"¿Se escribe peor que antes? ¿O más niños y jóvenes escriben, más estudiantes están incluidos en el sistema educativo, y más instituciones y profesores se hacen responsables por enseñarles a escribir?", se pregunta en la siguiente columna, Federico Navarro, doctor en lingüística, investigador visitante del Centro de Investigación Avanzada en Educación (CIAE) e investigador de carrera de CONICET en Argentina.

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NOTE: The title of the post was edited subsequent to the SC rejecting a plea to reexamine the meaning of Hindutva as interpreted in the 1996 Manohar Joshi judgment Day 3 began with Mr. Shyam Divan’s arguments. He continued from the previous day and recapped the structure and scheme of his arguments. He began with […]

Intelligence agencies will not have free access to Aadhaar data, a top government official said on Thursday, looking to assuage fears of abuse of personal information.
The article by Aloke Tikku was published in the Hindustan Times on October 20, 2016. Sunil Abraham was quoted.