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  • AMENDMENT TO GUIDELINES FOR INTERMEDIARIES

    AMENDMENT TO GUIDELINES FOR INTERMEDIARIES

    Background The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (“Meity”), on June 06 2022 proposed amendments (“Proposed Amendment”) to the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021 (“IT Rules”). The Proposed Amendment sought to address the gaps

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    By NovoJuris about 5 hours ago
  • CCPA ADVERTISEMENT GUIDELINES: HOW THEY AFFECT CELEBRITIES AND INFLUENCERS

    CCPA ADVERTISEMENT GUIDELINES: HOW THEY AFFECT CELEBRITIES AND INFLUENCERS

    THE GUIDELINES The Guidelines for Prevention of Misleading Advertisements and Endorsements for Misleading Advertisements, 2022, issued by the Central Consumer Protection Authority (“Authority") (“CCPA Guidelines”), published on 9th June 2022, apply to all advertisements regardless of form, format, or medium.

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    By NovoJuris about 3 hours ago
  • Intermediaries operating in India can now be directed by Courts to disclose the identity of copyright infringer

    Intermediaries operating in India can now be directed by Courts to disclose the identity of copyright infringer

    The Delhi High Court (“Court”), vide judgement titled Neetu Singh and Ors v. Telegram FZ LLC and Ors dated 30th August 2022 (“Judgement”), has directed the messaging application ‘Telegram’ to disclose the identities of administrators of channels/accounts on its application,

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    By NovoJuris 1 minute ago
  • SEBI Provides More Leeway to Pooled Investment Vehicles: Drops “India Connection” Clause

    SEBI Provides More Leeway to Pooled Investment Vehicles: Drops “India Connection” Clause

      The Security Exchange Board of India (“SEBI”) has issued Guidelines for overseas investment by Alternate Investment Funds (AIF) / Venture Capital Funds (VCF)   dated 17th August, 2022 (“Guidelines”) (available here) . These guidelines have been issued by SEBI in

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  • RBI’S PAYMENT VISION 2025: KEY INITIATIVES AND GOALS

    RBI’S PAYMENT VISION 2025: KEY INITIATIVES AND GOALS

      The use of digital payment systems such as mobile wallets, net banking, electronic authentication and other forms of payments that diverge from the traditional payment methods to a cashless economy have witnessed a massive surge in India. The rapid

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    By NovoJuris 1 minute ago
  • Draft Master Direction on Outsourcing of IT Services

    Draft Master Direction on Outsourcing of IT Services

      Regulated Entities (REs) (as defined below) have been extensively leveraging Information Technology (IT) and IT enabled services (ITeS) to support their business models and products and services offered to their customers. REs also outsource substantial portion of their IT

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    By NovoJuris less than a minute ago
  • 6 hours to report Cyber Incidents to CERT-In and more compliances

    6 hours to report Cyber Incidents to CERT-In and more compliances

    VPNs such as Express VPN, Surf Shark and now Nord VPN have left India as one of the outcomes from CERT-In Directions. The VPNs operate by providing privacy and security tools that encrypts users web traffic and many a time

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    By NovoJuris less than a minute ago
  • Can an Investor shareholder call for an EGM?

    Can an Investor shareholder call for an EGM?

    ZEE- Invesco Case   Invesco- Zee dispute Invesco Developing Markets Fund and OFI Global China Fund LLM , collectively holding 17.88% in ZEE Entertainment Enterprises Limited (“Zee”),  had issued a requisition to Zee in terms of Section 100(2)(a) of the

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  • AIF Regulations – Relaxation in minimum investment value for Accredited Investors

    AIF Regulations – Relaxation in minimum investment value for Accredited Investors

    ·         AIF Regulations were amended to introduce a framework for accredited investors in August 2021 via the SEBI (Alternative Investment Funds) (Third Amendment) Regulations, 2012. ·         Investors into AIF (other than Angel Funds) have to bring in Rs. 1 crore

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    By NovoJuris 1 minute ago
  • 6 hours to report Cyber Incidents to CERT-In

    6 hours to report Cyber Incidents to CERT-In

    CERT-In Directions The Computer Emergency Response Team (“CERT-In”) has notified new directions dated 28th April 2022, under sub-section (6) of section 70B of the Information Technology Act, 2000 relating to information security practices, procedure, prevention, response and reporting of cyber

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    By NovoJuris 5 minutes ago
  • Registration for smart devices, wearable electronics, IOT devices: Are the new DoT Guidelines for registration of Machine to Machine Service Providers feasible?

    Registration for smart devices, wearable electronics, IOT devices: Are the new DoT Guidelines for registration of Machine to Machine Service Providers feasible?

    The Department of Telecommunication (DoT), in February 2022, issued guidelines for registration of machine-to-machine (M2M) service providers and WPAN/WLAN Connectivity Provider for M2M Services (“Guidelines”). The guidelines can be accessed here.  As per the Guidelines, the companies providing M2M services

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    By NovoJuris about 18 hours ago
  • MAURITIUS - REGULATIONS FOR VIRTUAL ASSETS AND TOKEN OFFERINGS

    MAURITIUS - REGULATIONS FOR VIRTUAL ASSETS AND TOKEN OFFERINGS

    The Virtual Asset & Initial Token Offering Services Act 2021 (“Act”) is the enactment to govern virtual asset service providers and issuance of token offerings. The Act came into force from 7 February 2022. The Objective The Act aims at

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    By NovoJuris 13 days ago
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