Who Would Have Thought ?!?!

Apple has allowed developers to take payments outside the App Store !! Voluntarily without a Judgement or Order or any other form of legislation coercing them !! Who would have thought this day would come. 🙂 Atleast I admittedly didn’t. It’s part of a settlement of course, so perhaps they saw the writing on the…

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A Rechristening. 😀

Ladies and gentlemen !! We are proud to announce that our website url has now officially been changed from “indiancompetitionantitrust.wordpress.com” to “icaab.org”. 🙂 Our ambition has finally got the better of us and there are a lot more changes on the way, including a revamp of the design layout as well as the addition of…

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Note On Competition/Anti-Trust Law and its Efficacy in Tackling Issues Concerning Privacy (Part III) – And a Post Script.

[The previous post seemed way too long for a blog post, so decided to split it and post a ‘Part III’. The previous posts can be found here and here. Also as a bonus – an anticlimax post script. ;)] INDIA As already stated above, India has also till date been following the traditional model…

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Note On Competition/Anti-Trust Law and its Efficacy in Tackling Issues Concerning Privacy (Part II).

Continued from our previous post:- EUROPEAN UNION (E.U.) In the E.U., the European Commission (E.C.) and its Directorate General for Competition are responsible for the administration of competition law. In regard to privacy matters, the General Data Protection Regulation is regulated by the European Data Protection Board. European authorities have also had the opportunity to…

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Note On Competition/Anti-Trust Law and its Efficacy in Tackling Issues Concerning Privacy (Part I).

The traditional competition/anti-trust law paradigm, both in India and jurisdictions abroad, aims to tackle all abuses under two broad heads: Violations through Anti-competitive agreements Violations through Abuse of dominant position While action is possible against the first only post the agreement coming into effect, competition law allows action against the second even at a pre-execution…

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The Best of “Big Tech” (Part – II)

Following our previous post from yesterday, listed below is the next set of links. Happy reading !! Rowland Manthorpe, Google’s Nemesis: Meet the British Couple who took on a Giant, Won… and Cost it £2.1 billion (Wired) Rahul Matthan, Google’s Play Store Policy isn’t Simply About Toll Charges (Mint) Manish Singh, Indian Startups Explore Alliance…

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Foundation of Media Professionals v. Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir and Anr., Writ Petition Diary No. 10817 of 2020 : Another Opportunity to press for Right to Internet ?

  The Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir (which before the Supreme Court is almost always represented by a Counsel for the Union of India) a few days ago filed an Affidavit expressly making a statement that the right to access the internet is not a fundamental right. To quote the text verbatim below: “It…

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