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When a Video Lies About You: Inside India's New Deepfake Takedown Rules

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              AI-generated illustration accompanying the article. Source: Created by the author using OpenAI's ChatGPT image generation tool (2026). Introduction:  A student got a notification like any other, someone had tagged her in a video. When she opened it, she saw herself, saying things she never said, in her own voice, cloned to sound exactly like her. It was obviously AI-generated. That didn't make it feel any less like a violation. Nobody had asked her permission, and by the time she found the video, it had already been watched, shared, and forwarded well beyond her control. This kind of story isn't unusual anymore. Across social media, young creators are quietly changing how much they post, and how, worried that their face or voice could end up in a video they never made.  The government has taken notice: the government's response is a set of amendments to the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics...

CRYPTOCURRENCY || AFIFA AHMED

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* AI-Generated Image                        Cryptocurrencies represent the initial alternative to the conventional banking system. Cryptocurrency is a digital money that doesn’t require a bank or financial institution to verify transactions and can be used for purchases or as an investment. This form of digital or virtual currency is protected by cryptographic methods, rendering it almost impossible to forge or spend twice. In contrast to traditional money, cryptocurrencies function on decentralized networks supported by blockchain technology, a shared ledger overseen by a network of computers . Blockchain technology is a decentralized digital ledger that securely records transactions across multiple computers. A user initiates a transaction, which is validated by network nodes through consensus algorithms before being compiled into a block. Each block is linked to the previous one using cryptographic hashes, making the transac...

UNDERSTANDING ENVIRONMENTAL LAWS IN INDIA || JAY NAYAN MOPUR

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