Advocate (Dr.) Prashant Mali's Blog

What do we mean by a “right of privacy” in India? Justice Cooley in 1888 defined it simply as a right to be left alone. Alternatively, it may be defined as a right to be anonymous. The two definitions are quite different but both are important, and the right to be anonymous is a form of privacy that has particularly significant implications in cyberspace. In legal terms, our right of privacy amounts to a right to be free from government intrusion into certain areas of our lives and a right to be free from intrusion by other individuals into our “private” lives. The former is protected largely through Constitutional interpretation and a number of statutes; the latter is protected largely through the common law under tort principles. Before 1890 no English or American court had ever granted relief based on such a claim as “invasion of privacy.”  However, in 1890 a Harvard Law Review article by Samuel Warren and Louis Brandeis examined a number of cases ostensibly decided on other gr

Why does India need a Data Protection Law? Apart from appeasing European Union for sharing data with Indian companies, One of the reason is presently all Data of ours -Search, Emails, Chats of Google, FB, Hotmail, Whatsapp are stored in Californian Servers, USA Jurisdiction. US Foriegn Intelligence Survivelenace Court (FISA) with a single penstroke court gag order can take all Indian MPs, PMO, Home Minister,MEA's etc Email data and Analyse them for leverage in Intl' Affairs, Thats a severe Threat, #privacy intrusion.  Not to mention even the Locations of each Citizen,Official in India can be monitored by US NSA analysts as of now with #Whatsapp, Android Phones relaying data back to USA servers.  Hence a Data Protection Law in India is a need of the Hour. " How to turn Android Phone or Tablet into a Server " .You can check it out here -  https://joyofandroid.com/use-old-android-phone-as-server/

Ransom-payers are also the cause of ransomware proliferation: Prashant Mali The ransom to retrieve files was reportedly $300, to be paid in virtual currency bitcoins Nikita Puri   July 1, 2017 Last Updated at 21:20 IST Operations at a terminal of the country’s largest container port,  Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust  in Mumbai, came to a standstill earlier this week. The process of loading and unloading containers was halted as the port’s computers shut down after a major  cyber attack  that swept across the globe. The aggressiveness of the malware showed that such attacks were capable of bringing both corporate and government networks to a sudden halt. The ransom to retrieve files was reportedly $300, to be paid in virtual currency bitcoins.  Cyber law  expert  Prashant Mali , also an advocate at the Bombay High Court, tells  Nikita Puri  how to prevent mass-scale civil disruptions that future cyber attacks can result in. Edited excerpts:   First  we had individual com