tech-regulation

India’s Digital Future Is Moving Faster Than Its Laws Artificial Intelligence can now generate art, clone voices, imitate personalities, and create highly convincing deepfakes within seconds. Yet, many of these emerging issues are still being governed through legal interpretation of statutes enacted long before the AI era. India currently has: no dedicated AI legislation, no standalone deepfake r…

NyayAI: Building an AI Legal Assistant for 1.4 Billion People — A Technical Deep Dive I'm building a startup to make Indian law accessible to every lawyer, law student, and citizen in the country. Here's the technical story of how I went from zero to a working prototype — training a foundation model from scratch, fine-tuning on 4,000 instruction pairs, and building a production-ready RAG pipeline…

The provision of legal aid by advocates has not yet been fully regarded as part of social contribution and social responsibility. The obligation of advocates to provide pro bono legal aid is closely connected to the concept of the rule of law and the law enforcement system that reflects the legal ideals or rechtsidee, namely legal certainty (rechtsicherheit), justice (gerechtigkeit), and utility …

The Contract Law prescribes basic requisites for a contract to be legally enforceable, including free consent and competency of parties. The contract is void when the consent has not been genuine and obtained by coercion, fraud, misrepresentation, undue influence or mistake. Mistakes may be of facts, or law, affecting the agreements. It further provides that only persons who are not minors, of so…

Ms. Chandni Dhawan & Dr. Anmol Kaur Nayar ABSTRACT "I didn't know why I was going to cry, but I knew that if anybody spoke to me or looked at me too closely, the tears would fly out of my eyes and the sobs would fly out of the throat, and I would cry for a week," a few words once shared by Sylvia Plath in her work The Bell Jar. The experiences this path captures are not unknown: navigating ar…

Aditya Gurjar, B.A.LL.B. (Hons.), Trinity Institute of Professional Studies, Dwarka ABSTRACT The dynamism of digital communication has propelled social media platforms from mere intermediaries to a powerful locus of control over online speech. In this regard, this research paper aims to explore the constitutional challenges posed by content moderation regimes of dominant tech giants, in relation …

Rohan Bhimajiyani, LL.M., Gujarat National Law University ABSTRACT With the rise of digitalisation in every realm of our lives, governments around the world have embraced technology to deliver welfare services to their citizens. It provides a secure, cost-effective and modern solution to the legacy methods of service delivery. The Government of India has undertaken the ‘Digital India’ project und…

Rahee Chaudhari, Symbiosis Law School, Pune 1. Introduction The dynamic cat and mouse game between the thieves and the investigating agencies has been brought to the forefront during the 21st century. Technology such as and cryptocurrency has supercharged the age-old concept of simple fraud. The magnitude of this new threat is enormous. Cryptocurrency crime is estimated to be around 40.9 billion …

The tension between Legal and IT has always been frustrating but AI is about to make it worse, at scale. The answer is observable compliance: encoding legal intent directly into architecture. The post Lost in Translation: How AI Exposes the Rift Between Law and Logic appeared first on Towards Data Science .

DMA: The FSFE intervenes against Apple before European Court of Justice for the second time The Free Software Foundation Europe has been granted permission to intervene at the Court of Justice of the European Union in the case T-359/25 - Apple against the European Commission. This second intervention aims to defend interoperability and Software Freedom in Europe. In May 2026, the Court of Justice…

Abiramidevi. N, LL.M. (Corporate Governance Laws and Finance), Government Law College, Dharmapuri, affiliated to Tamil Nadu Dr. Ambedkar Law University, Chennai. ABSTRACT This paper examines the complex interplay between the Information Technology Act, 2000 and Section 65B of the Indian Evidence Act concerning the enforcement of foreign electronic arbitral awards in India. While the IT Act aims t…

This week, Donald Trump dropped a personal $10bn lawsuit he had against the Internal Revenue Service in exchange for a so-called anti-weaponisation fund. The $1.8bn fund will be used to compensate those who think they have been unfairly investigated by the government in the past. This week, Jonathan Freedland speaks to the legal analyst Kristy Greenberg about why critics are calling this fund ‘co…

This study examines the practice of leasing kapok trees in Bissappu Subdistrict, Bantaeng Regency, and evaluates its conformity with fiqh muamalah (Islamic commercial jurisprudence). It uses a field research design with normative and phenomenological approaches, integrating Islamic legal analysis with real practices in the community. Data were collected through observation, documentation, and in-…

The UK peer has questioned whether sandbox powers linked to AI regulation will receive enough public engagement and parliamentary scrutiny. Lord Holmes has questioned whether UK AI Growth Lab legislation will receive enough public engagement and parliamentary scrutiny. Lord Holmes has raised concerns that UK legislation linked to the proposed AI Growth Lab could give ministers too much power to a…