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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...
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ONLINE GAMING: PROMOTION AND REGULATION OF ONLINE GAMING ACT, 2025

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Source: AI-generated Image (Gemini) Introduction: Online gaming has seen an exponential growth in recent times, enabling innovation, job creation, technological advancements etc. India has a rising number of professionals with technological capabilities and a fleetly growing domestic market, which together enable the country to assume a leadership role in the global online gaming value chain. The online gaming ecosystem comprises mainly of these elements: e-Sports, casual and social games, educational games, and online money games. Nevertheless, some platforms offering online gaming systems may frequently be aggressively promoted through advertising juggernauts, including promotions by celebrities and influencers, enhancing their reach and impact especially among the youth and vulnerable groups, with some of them being linked to illegal conditioning similar as fiscal fraud, money laundering, non- payment of taxes, and also, the backing of terrorism, thereby putting at threat the public...
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