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Obough-Fegue, a 6-foot-4 sophomore from Paris, said she plans to graduate from Eastern Florida State in December and enroll at Tech for the spring 2019 semester. She said she will redshirt the 2018-19 season, then play the following two seasons for the Hokies. … [Read more...] about Blog: Virginia Tech women sign JUCO center

Nevertheless, users do not exchange sensitive information with the body corporate on the basis of any written agreement. When the user starts applying the cover guard, it is implied that she has allowed Facebook to use photo matching technology for that particular image. Since this is done for the safety of the users, even though the ‘guarded’ images are ‘stored’ without explicit contract, Facebook would not be liable for any privacy breach as long as the same is not being used for any other purposes.But allowing tagging of individuals by photo-matching is definitely a privacy breach if seen in the perspective of S.5 of the Information Technology (Reasonable Security Practices And Procedures And Sensitive Personal Data Or Information) Rules, 2011. As mentioned above, tagging by photo matching may necessarily include recognition of biometrics and facial patterns and users whose privacy has been thus violated may definitely consider for legal action. … [Read more...] about FB, Its Content Regulation Policies & Photo-Matching Tech: Boon Or Bane For Indian Women From Privacy Law Aspects

And the StarTribune reported he said: "Facebook doesn’t have to care about the privacy and security of their users’ online information because there’s no mass exodus when it violates those rules. They have no real competitors … and that means users have no defense." … [Read more...] about Franken Pushes for More Regulation on Tech Industry

“Thank you Apple, Google, Amazon, Microsoft—for not taking part in political censorship,” wrote Russian entrepreneur Pavel Durov, 33, the founder of both Telegram and vKontakte, on his personal Telegram channel. “I’m thrilled we were able to survive under the most aggressive attempt of internet censorship in Russian history.” Durov also called for Telegram supporters to throw paper airplanes with messages on them out of their windows on April 22 to signal their support. That protest landed at least one activist, Maria Alyokhina, a member of punk protest group Pussy Riot, in police custody. … [Read more...] about Russia’s New Internet Crackdown—and How Tech-Savvy Citizens Are Trying to Thwart It

Shri C Hari Shankar, Hon’ble Judge, High Court of Delhi Shri Jayant Nath, Hon’ble Judge, High Court of Delhi Shri Ajay Prakash Sawhney, Secretary, Department of Electronics and Information Technology, Government of India Shri Suresh Chandra, Law Secretary, Department of Legal Affairs, Ministry of Law and Justice, Government of India Shri Sandeep Jajodia, President of ASSOCHAM & CMD of Monnet Group Shri Kiran Grandhi, VP of ASSOCHAM & Business Chairman of GMR Infra Shri Sunil Kanoria, Past President, ASSOCHAM & Vice Chairman, SREI Infrastructure Finance Limited Shri SumanJyotiKhaitan, Chairman of ASSOCHAM National Council of Legal Affairs & Regulatory Reforms & Founder of Suman Jyoti Khaitan & Co. and Khaitan & Partners, Law Firms (Dr.) Manoj Kumar Sinha, Director, The Indian Law Institute, New Delhi Shri K.K. Manan, Sr. Advocate & Member, Special Committee, Bar Council of Delhi Shri Gautam Kapoor, Partner, Deloitte LiveLaw is the Media … [Read more...] about ASSOCHAM’s Indian Tech-Law Conference on Decoding Technology For Indian Law [12th May; New Delhi]