Corporate Law : The draft amendment makes executive directions binding for intermediaries to retain safe harbour. Non-compliance can expose platfo...
Corporate Law : This article explains the key differences between cloud and on-premise POS systems and highlights how cost, control, and scalabili...
Finance : The issue examined is how traditional confidentiality duties now apply in data-driven work environments. The key takeaway is that ...
Corporate Law : Explains how online platforms are regulated under the IT Act, 2000, focusing on safe harbour protection, duties, and limits on int...
Corporate Law : Fragmented regulations like DPDP 2023 and IT Act 2000 leave Indian cloud data vulnerable; experts urge a full-fledged Cloud Comput...
Corporate Law : The proposed amendments mandate intermediaries to comply with government advisories and directions as part of due diligence. They ...
Corporate Law : MeitY invites public feedback on the Draft Digital Personal Data Protection Rules, 2025, detailing data security, consent, and com...
Corporate Law : Health Ministry assures the public that the Co-WIN portal is secure with stringent data privacy safeguards. Learn about the securi...
Corporate Law : This FAQ, consisting of 28 questions, attempts to respond to general queries on Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines an...
Corporate Law : The Government Respects the Right of Privacy and Has No Intention to Violate it When WhatsApp is Required to Disclose the Origin o...
Corporate Law : The Supreme Court upheld the High Court’s refusal to interfere with condonation of 116 days’ delay and stay of disobedience pr...
Corporate Law : Andhra Pradesh High Court grants anticipatory bail to accused in UPI fraud, benami, and hawala transactions case. Court cites prec...
Service Tax : CESTAT Chennai held that service of ERP implementation falls under the category of ‘Information Technology Service’ and the sa...
Corporate Law : Domain Name Registrars by the application of the algorithm derived by whom the infringing domain names were becoming available to ...
Corporate Law : Lok Sabha introduced a revolutionary bill aimed at safeguarding digital personal data of individuals - Digital Personal Data Prote...
Corporate Law : CERT-In issues directions relating to information security practices, procedure, prevention, response and reporting of cyber incid...
Corporate Law : Government of India Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) Electronics Niketan, 6 CGO Complex., Lodhi Road, Ne...
Corporate Law : (1) These rules may be called the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021. (2) ...
SEBI : Further, as per regulation 18 of SEBI (Stock Brokers & Sub-brokers) Regulations, 1992 (hereinafter referred to as Stock Broker Reg...
Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, Government of India had put up during draft rules under section 43A and 79 of Information Technology Act, 2000. Section 43A provides for compensation for failure to protect senry sitive personal data by body corporates, who are expected to implement and maintain reasonable security practices and procedures as prescribed by Central Government. In this regard, the draft rules lay down for compulsory Privacy Policy by body corporates and also provide for restriction on disclosure of information to third party, which cannot be made except with prior permission of the information providers.
Market regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India asked bourses on Wednesday to preserve original records related to an investigation till the trial is over instead of the current practice of keeping the papers only for five years. The respective original is to be maintained till the trial or investigation proceedings have concluded, market regulator Sebi said in a circular to all stock exchanges.
Further, as per regulation 18 of SEBI (Stock Brokers & Sub-brokers) Regulations, 1992 (hereinafter referred to as Stock Broker Regulations), every stock broker shall preserve the specified books of account and other records for a minimum period of five years. In case such documents are maintained in electronic form, provisions of Information Technology Act, 2000 in this regard shall be complied with.
With proliferation of information technology enabled services such as e-governance, e-commerce and e-transactions; data security, data privacy and implementation of security practices and procedures relating to these applications of electronic communications have assumed greater importance and they required harmonization with the provisions of the Information Technology Act. Further, protection of Critical Information Infrastructure is pivotal to national security, economy, public health and safety, thus it had become necessary to declare such infrastructure as protected system, so as to restrict unauthorised access. Further, a rapid increase in the use of computer and Internet has given rise to new forms of crimes like, sending offensive emails and multimedia messages, child pornography, cyber terrorism, publishing sexually explicit materials in electronic form, video voyeurism, breach of confidentiality and leakage of data by intermediary, e-commerce frauds like cheating by personation – commonly known as phishing, identity theft, frauds on online auction sites, etc. So, penal provisions were required to be included in the Information Technology Act, 2000. Also, the Act needed to be technology-neutral to provide for alternative technology of electronic signature for bringing harmonization with Model Law on Electronic Signatures adopted by United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL)
Notification No. 70/2009 – Income Tax In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (1B) of section 139 of the Income-tax Act, 1961 (43 of 1961), the Central Board of Direct Taxes hereby makes the following amendment in the notification of the Government of India, in the Ministry of Finance (Department of Revenue), vide S.O. 1281(E) dated the 27th July, 2007, published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II,
CS. Monika Bhardwaj, B.Com (Hons.), ACS, LL.B (I), Gurgaon This article aims to highlight that communications done through electronic mode are now recognized by Indian Law and hold true as an ‘evidence’ as well as ‘contractual liability’. Internet and electronic communications has now become an integral part of our day to day life, from SMS […]
Tax evasion in Mumbai may now become more difficult as taxpayers will have to deal with a cyber-savvy income-tax department. The IT department has recently adopted a technology to track down fraudulent electronic transactions even after they are deleted from computers. The department has a Cyber Forensic Lab in Mumbai that consists of advanced technological […]
The Madras High Court clarifies that P&L accounts and balance sheets are not considered books of account under the Income Tax Act, impacting tax compliance.
