This piece is authored by Devansh Awasthi a 3rd Year Student of RMNLU The New Face of Online Harm The rise of deepfakes has altered the way government regulators view online harm. Previously, online harm was thought of primarily as the existence of misinformation including false texts, misleading captions, or altered photographs. Today’s technology brings synthetic or machine-made audio and video and images that present the illusion of someone actually saying or doing somethi

What the CJP protests reveal about digital surveillance and the future of dissent A TECHNICAL HUMAN-RIGHTS ANALYSIS At a protest, you expect to be seen. That is partly the point. You stand in a public place, hold a placard, chant a slogan and make a political demand visible. But being seen is not the same as being identified by a machine. That distinction has moved from theory to the streets of Delhi. During the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) protest at Jantar Mantar over repeat

Written by Varad Tiwari of Hidayatullah National Law University, Raipur Introduction Consent, not contract, defines the legal boundary of processing. - Varad Tiwari The Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 (‘ DPDP Act’ ) is India’s first comprehensive statute governing the collection, use, and sharing of personal data. Enacted to enable Data Principals (‘ DPs’ ), being individuals to whom personal data relates, to exercise meaningful control over how their data is pro

Written by Princy Sawant & Aakash Atwal (National Law University, Jodhpur) THE EFFECT OF DEEPFAKES ON DIGNITY AND PRIVACY Deepfake technology has turned the fear of online harassment into a daily reality in India. The concern has shifted beyond mere fake news, it now centers on the explicit usage of AI-generated content to produce fake images without consent. The recent deepfake video that went viral, depicting actor Rashmika Mandana is an example of how readily available too

The article is written by Aryan Jha of National Law University, Orissa Introduction The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) has recently notified the Digital Personal Data Protection Rules 2025 (Rules) on November 13, 2025. The notified rules have been enacted pursuant to the powers conferred on the Central Government under Section 40 of the Digital Personal Data Protection Act 2025 (Act). The rules encompass and abridge various procedural aspects of

Written By Chirkankshit Bulani (Rajiv Gandh i National University Of Law) and Shivansh Bajpai Introduction A recent blog piece published in the Tech law Forum at NALSAR university addressed algorithmic manipulation of political information, and proposed a listener-centric approach to accountability. While the normative concerns raised through the blog are indubitably qualified to warrant serious attention, this critique/response attempts to identify technical deficiencies wh