In no particular order, here are MediaNama’s top 10 stories of the week ended 7th April 2019 MediaNama would like to thank its sponsors: E2E, for their support. What Mozilla said in its submission on the E-Commerce Policy Mozilla’s submission to DPIIT, accessible here, outlines a position of reforming the policy to take into account greater consideration of security of the data of Indian users and a more strategic approach to enabling competition in e-commerce. The submission is summarised below. Read it here TRAI's OSP registration consultation flags the issue that online applications could be required to register in India The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India has asked whether applications should be regulated as “other service providers” (OSPs) in a consultation paper issued on March 29th. OSPs are, under the Department of Telecommunications’ definition, companies that provide application services that use the telecom infrastructure and resources provided by telecom operators to provide services like “tele-banking, tele-medicine, tele-education, tele-trading, ecommerce, call centre” etc. Read it here India's draft Ecommerce Policy: Online Vendors' Association wants marketplaces regulated as "economic utilities" The All India Online Vendors Association (AIOVA) has submitted comments to the DPIIT on the E-Commerce Policy, representing 3500 sellers operating on e-commerce marketplaces, such as Flipkart, Amazon, Snapdeal etc. Read it here Key Points from Mark Zuckerberg’s call for regulation of the Internet: harmful content, data portability, election interference, privacy In his article in the Washington Post, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg suggested the need for new rules from lawmakers to balance…
