Avantika Banerjee

The IETF was set up in 1986; It was one of the institutions set up during those early days to act as a central standards and governance body for the internet. Most of the internet protocols regarding the world wide web, were a product of the consensus and governance process…

I found ‘A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace‘ written by John Perry Barlow; Probably one of the first few writings around the conversation of internet governance and policies.

The FTC recently reached a settlement with advertising company EPIC marketplace, regarding charges relating to ‘history sniffing’. Well, the first question is, what is history sniffing? A group of researchers from the Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering University of California, San Diego, USA published a paper titled An Empirical Study of Privacy-Violating…

Robert E. Wilson, Samuel D. Gosling and Lindsay T. Graham have released a new report published by Sage based on literature review of academic articles relating to facebook research. Online version of this report can be found at http://pps.sagepub.com/content/7/3/203. 

Ponnurangam Kumaraguru and Niharika Sachdeva from Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology (IIT), Delhi have very recently published a new report titled Privacy in India: Attitudes and Awareness V 2.0. Though I have not gone through the report in detail, at first glance the report seems to be a step in the right direction…

The idea of applying of holding service providers liable for the acts committed by the users of the service has been around for a while. Personally I think holding a service provider liable for the illegal acts of the users is absurd, but then other might disagree. Taking this concept…

The Federal Trade Commission has published a guide to truth in advertising and basic privacy principles. The link for it is here.

THE RISE AND RISE OF SILICON ALLEY We all know New York City is a hot bed right now for technological entrepreneurs and start ups. A quick glimpse of the facts reveals the growth of the NYC tech scene. –           The Start up Genome Project (it collects data about start ups…

The Center for an Urban Future recently released an informative and timely report  titled ‘The New Tech City’. For all those interested in New York City and its growth as a digital and entrepreneurial hub, this is a comprehensive report to refer to for data and information.

The International Chamber of Commerce UK, recently released the ‘UK Cookie Guide’. The Global Regulatory Enforcement Law Blog, has a comprehensive over view about the guide and its implications. The relevant post is available here.