India’s Deepfake Dilemma: Why Publicity Rights and the Proposed Intermediary Rules Both Miss the Mark
On October 22, 2025, India’s Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) proposed a set of amendments to the existing Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules,...
Playing with the Brain: The AI Act in the Age of Neurotechnology
Article 5 of the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Act in the European Union (EU) came into force on 2 February 2025. A provision that is of considerable interest is Article 5(1)(a)...
Big Tech, the Supreme Court and Brazil’s New Era of Civil Liability
Brazil is at a crucial crossroads in the debate over the civil liability of providers of digital applications. Until recently, the model established by Article 19 of Law No. 12,965...
Breaking Encryption, Breaking Rights? France’s Legislative Stand and What India Must Learn
On 20 March 2025, the French National Assembly voted down Article 8 of the proposed Drug Trafficking Bill (“Proposition de loi visant à sortir la France du piège du narcotrafic”),...
Potential Human Rights Impact of President Trump’s New Policies Governing Artificial Intelligence
On January 23, 2025, the Trump Administration issued Executive Order No. 14,179, “Removing Barriers to American Leadership in Artificial Intelligence.” This Order followed the January 20 rescission of the Biden...
Now that the AI Act has been politically agreed, what’s next? …. Harmonised European Standards.
I have been working on behalf of Equinet, which holds liaison status in the European Committee for Standardization (CEN) and the European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardization (CENELEC) Joint Technical Committee...
The Role of Social Media in Russia’s War in Ukraine: Durov’s Arrest as a Catalyst for Global Social Media Accountability?
The recent arrest of Pavel Durov, CEO of Telegram, on charges of allegedly aiding and abetting criminal activities through the platform, has cast a renewed spotlight on social media platforms’...
The Indian Telecommunication Act, 2023: A Beacon of Security or a Shroud on Liberty?
With the enactment of the Telecommunication Act 2023 (“Act”), there has been a tectonic shift in India’s telecommunication landscape. The Act supersedes the Indian Telegraph Act 1885 and the Indian...
AI and Global Development: The Role of Economic and Social Rights
As policymakers in the Global North prepare to introduce binding horizontal AI regulation, increasing attention is also being paid to the promises and pitfalls of AI for developing countries. Although...
How can we guard against AI-generated discrimination?
One of the most commonly expressed concerns about AI systems is their capacity to produce unfairly discriminatory outputs and decisions. Well-known examples abound: for instance, in healthcare, AI-enabled decision support...
