India: Technology

Connected vehicles increasingly resemble computers on wheels. They rely on continuous data flows for safe operation, navigation, infotainment and driver-assistance features. This data - called telemetry-travels through Machine-to-Machine SIM cards (M2M SIMs), embedded SIMs (eSIMs), dedicated short-range communication (DSRC), cellular vehicle-to-everything(C-V2X) and cloud platforms. In India, each of these building blocks is regulated, but through separate legal framework rather than a unified regulation.

India's digital payments ecosystem has transformed financial accessibility, but it has also created new vulnerabilities through SIM swap fraud, phishing, and social engineering attacks. Recent High Court decisions are reshaping how liability is allocated among banks, telecom providers, and customers when unauthorized electronic banking transactions occur, establishing that responsibility increasingly rests with whichever participant first compromised the digital authentication process.

Data embassies represent a groundbreaking evolution in digital sovereignty, allowing states to extend diplomatic protections to critical infrastructure and data hosted in foreign territories. As global geopolitics becomes increasingly volatile and cyber threats intensify, how are nations leveraging this innovative concept to ensure governmental continuity and protect their most sensitive information beyond their borders?

The rapid proliferation of artificial intelligence tools has generated pressing questions regarding the continued integrity of legal professional privilege.

This article examines the emergence of "competitive denial M&A" a revolutionary acquisition strategy exemplified by Anthropic’s $300 million acquisition of Stainless in May 2026, where the target company was purchased primarily to deny competitors access to shared infrastructure rather than to achieve traditional synergies.

The Advent of Artificial intelligence (“AI”) has taken its shape and form in nearly all the sectors, contributing either directly or indirectly to the Indian economy. It has now moved from a topic of revolution to an issue for discussion and more so a reason for restructuring the existing legal regimes. One such sector where AI has settled itself is that of music industry or broadly putting it, the creative industry, amid the growing characterization of the Indian economy as an ‘orange economy,’ driven by creativity, culture, and intellectual property.

The Information Technology Act, 2000 empowers the Central Government under section 87 to frame rules governing intermediaries, including the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021.

The dispute between Scarlett Johansson and OpenAI revolves around the release of OpenAI's updated voice assistant in its GPT-4o model, which featured a voice that many found eerily similar...

With the rapid advancement of technology, the digital landscape has become a breeding ground for cyber threats, and one of the most prevalent among them is phishing.

The Reserve Bank of India's latest amendment on digital fraud fundamentally reshapes liability in India's financial ecosystem by mandating that banks immediately credit fraud victims before determining fault, effectively ending the long-standing practice of institutional finger-pointing. This decisive regulatory intervention forces banks to absorb third-party breach losses upfront and recover separately from responsible intermediaries, prioritizing consumer protection over institutional convenience.

India’s digital payments landscape / ecosystem has grown exponentially and at a pace that regulators struggled to match. The rules governing automatic recurring charges remained scattered across multiple directives issued at different times.

The global intellectual property landscape is undergoing a fundamental transformation as traditional enforcement mechanisms prove inadequate against the speed and scale of digital infringement.