Written by - Varun Pathak (Partner at Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas) & Rudraditya (Student at RGNUL) I The Purpose Problem If we use, to achieve our purposes, a mechanical agency with whose operation we cannot interfere effectively … we had better be quite sure that the purpose put into the machine is the purpose we really desire and not merely a colorful imitation of it. - Norbert Wiener (50 Years Ago) The Dutch tax office employed a tool for finding fraud and analyzing data

Note:  This is general information for awareness; for transaction-specific advice, a CA/tax lawyer should review the facts. Collectible trading cards, whether physical (like Pokémon or Yu-Gi-Oh! cards) or digital (NFT-based cards), occupy a unique niche at the intersection of hobby, investment, and law. With rare cards fetching sky-high prices (a UK Pokémon card set from the 1990s sold for over ₹57 lakh in 2024 , and a Malaysian collector sold his Pokémon collection for ₹3.8

Introduction Over the past 2 decades Twitter, now X, has been one of the biggest social media platforms with around 27.3 million users from India. X in the past had has many issued regarding freedom of speech and what is and is not allowed on the platform, with Elon Musk himself weighing in numerous times .  In the past X has tried to push back  against India’s tightening grip over what content could or could not be posted on its platform. However, over the years it has seeme

Sunidhi Khabya and Satviki Agnihotri, 3 rd  Year, BA.L.L.B Students, NLU Jodhpur The challenge of AI to Data Protection  The advent of Artificial Intelligence in the contemporary world has led to data accumulation and processing at a substantially larger scale. With the help of predictive models, which continuously learn from patterns of past user behaviour and often extend beyond what is covered under the direct consent of the data subject. AI Systems process not only data d

India's ambition to become a global tech and manufacturing titan is up against a formidable challenge. It is neither a rival nation nor a market competitor, but something much deeper—its own legal framework. The crisis surrounding  rare earth elements (REEs) —minerals essential to everything from iPhones to fighter jets—can be traced back to a single piece of legislation written when the geopolitical landscape was entirely different. India possesses significant geological pot

On December 13, Saturday Night Live  ran a fake ad for “Uber Eats Wrapped.” It started like the familiar end-of-year dopamine hit, then swerved into humiliation: chicken nuggets “more than 99% of users,” an “Uber Eats age” that was “Dead,” and the real gut-punch, a character discovering he’d spent $24,000  on delivery. The joke wasn’t that the numbers were wrong. The joke was that the numbers were true —and that truth feels different when a company reads it back to you in neo

A few decades ago, a joke could ruin your life. In some places, it could even get you killed. Today, a joke can become a financial product. It can raise millions for charity. It can mint a cryptocurrency. It can turn a cartoon cat into a half-million-dollar sale. The big change is not that people suddenly became funnier. The change is that the internet learned how to turn humor into coordination, and coordination into money. When humor was treated like a weapon Power has alwa

The first time you see “Italian brainrot,” it looks like the internet broke: an AI-smeared creature, a fake-Italian name, a voiceover that sounds like it was generated by a microwave. The second time, you start recognizing the “characters.” The third time, you realize this isn’t random at all. It’s a format. And formats are how the internet prints money. Oxford picked “brain rot”  as its Word of the Year in 2024, describing it as both the content  and the effect : the suppose

The generative-music alarm bell rang in 2023, when the deep-faked duet “Heart on My Sleeve”  by “Drake” and “The Weeknd” sped past millions of streams before anyone could trace its source. The stunt made one thing brutally clear: labels could no longer police every upload, much less every model, in real time. Two years on, the industry’s strategy has flipped from whack-a-mole enforcement to supply-chain surveillance. Detection code is now being baked into every layer of the p