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Competition Law

PROCEDURAL BATTLEGROUNDS FOR THE CCI: OBSTRUCTION, EPHEMERAL DATA, AND BYOD IN DAWN RAIDS

Abhishek Nidasanametla When the Knock Comes: What India’s Competition Regime Isn’t Ready For In recent years, competition authorities abroad have started to treat ‘obstruction’ during dawn raids (“raid”) as a standalone infringement. Very recently, in Finland, the Market Court upheld a fine of EUR 1.5 million against Attendo Suomi after an employee deleted WhatsApp messages and […]

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Privacy Law Technology

AGE CHECKS OR PRIVACY WRECKS? DECODING RULE 10 OF DPDP DRAFT RULES, 2025

Kinjal Ahuja and Ashish Rawat “We cannot have a system, or even the appearance of system, where surveillance is secret, or where decisions are made about individuals by a Kafkaesque system of opaque and unreviewable decision-makers” – Reyna and Farley, 2006, p.43 Introduction India’s first dedicated data privacy law, the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, […]

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Privacy Law

Know Your Verifier: A Comment on the Law and Practice of Mandatory Aadhaar Authentication Procedures

Sankalp Srivastava Introduction This article is written broadly in the context of the documented categories of misuse of the Aadhaar regime to impose mandatory authentication by private players and the State.  For instance, private service providers continue to make Aadhaar mandatory for availing their services. In many cases, it goes unreported, but there are documented […]

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TeLawgram

13.11.20 – 19.11.20

Hello, this past week has seen several developments ranging from the Tamil Nadu Government considering regulating online gambling to the Asia Pacific states entering into a Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership. Happy Reading!

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TeLawgram

25.09.20 – 02.10.20

Greetings! We are pleased to present ‘TeLawgram’, our new weekly segment focussing on events of legal importance – in India and elsewhere. For your ease, we will be providing a brief summary of events, as well as a reading list that explores different points of view. With TeLawgram, we hope to both inform readers and […]

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Antitrust

Inclusion of Privacy as a Non-Price Competition Parameter

By Vishal Pathania In a digital economy or data-driven economy, data occupies the central position in new data-driven businesses. Collecting, storing, analysing, and working with data play an important role in the data-centred markets. In fact, data has become a significant source of market power.[1] This is the reason why many data-driven companies such as […]