News Summary: Enabling data exchange in the tourism industry under the National Digital Tourism Mission The report follows a familiar pattern in proposing data registries, open APIs, aggregate platforms, and a separate regulatory body. Sarvesh MathiMarch 15, 2022
News Summary: US President Biden’s Executive Order to explore various facets of digital assets including CBDCs The Biden administration is also exploring introducing a digital dollar. MitakshMarch 11, 2022
News Summary: CCI dismisses two antitrust complaints filed against e-commerce portal Shopee Both complaints alleged that Shopee has an adverse effect on competition as per Section 3 of the Competition Act. Sarvesh MathiMarch 8, 2022
News Summary: CCI dismisses AIOVA’s antitrust complaint against Amazon for failing to provide sufficient material The association submitted that the anti-competitive agreements between Amazon and its partners resulted in aggravating factors. Sarvesh MathiMarch 8, 2022
News Summary: Framework for Fairness Assessment of Artificial Intelligence/ Machine Learning Systems Stakeholders have been asked to fill in the blanks on black-box testing, fairness rating, handling code, training datasets, etc. MitakshFebruary 24, 2022
News Summary: Draft India Data Accessibility and Use Policy, 2022 The draft policy's objective to ensure data from every government ministry be open and shareable comes with caveats. MitakshFebruary 23, 2022
News Summary: US lawmakers introduce bill to tackle social media addiction and amplification of harmful content The bill will require social media platforms to release month-wise and half-yearly breakdowns of their content moderation stats. Sarvesh MathiFebruary 15, 2022
News Summary: IMF’s report on CBDC advocates information-sharing among countries for successful roll-out Taking stock of projects in advanced stages, the IMF proposed ways to operationalise CBDCs and navigate their risks. MitakshFebruary 11, 2022
News Comparing Bangladesh’s proposed rules for social media platforms with India’s IT Rules 2021 While the draft legislation is similar to the IT Rules in a number of ways, find out what sets them apart. Sarvesh MathiFebruary 10, 2022
News Bangladesh releases draft rules to regulate OTT platforms, modelled on India’s IT Rules Parts of the regulations go a step further to effectively proscribe certain types of streaming content. MitakshFebruary 9, 2022