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What is Technology Law?
Technology law is the set of legal rules that apply when a business builds, sells or uses technology. It covers the personal data the business collects, the software it owns or licenses, the contracts it signs with customers and vendors, and the platforms and AI tools it runs.
India has no single Act called technology law. Several laws apply at the same time, and which ones matter depends on what the product does, what data it handles and who uses it. This page explains the basics in plain language.
What it looks like in practice
Most businesses meet technology law through ordinary decisions. A few examples:
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Offering a tool, or onboarding one: why the MSA and SLA matter
If your company offers software to other businesses, or is about to start using someone else's, two documents set the terms of that relationship.
Master services agreement (MSA)
The main contract between the provider and the customer. It covers the scope of the service, fees, who owns the data and the intellectual property, confidentiality, limits on liability, and how either side can exit.
Service level agreement (SLA)
The measurable commitments: uptime, support response and resolution times, and the service credits owed when those commitments are missed.
If you offer a tool
Enterprise customers will usually ask for an MSA, an SLA and a data processing agreement before they sign. An SLA that promises more than your infrastructure delivers turns every outage into a claim, so the numbers should come from your actual monitoring. A settled MSA also means each new deal does not have to be negotiated from scratch.
If you are onboarding a tool
Vendor paper is written to protect the vendor. Before signing, check whether you can get your data back in a usable format when you leave, whether the liability cap would cover a data breach, how much notice is needed to terminate, and what happens to your data afterwards.
Who needs a technology lawyer?
Any business that has a website or app, collects customer information, sells software or online services, relies on cloud vendors, or uses AI tools. That includes startups building a first product and established companies in sectors like retail, manufacturing, healthcare and finance that are adopting technology.
Areas of work
Each of these is an area we work in. Choose one to read what the work involves.
A practice built around supporting businesses through technology-led transformation
KV TechLegal was founded by K. Vaitheeswaran, who has practised tax and business law for over three decades and has written widely on the digital economy. Alongside his tax practice, he set up KV TechLegal to focus on technology law and data privacy. We act for organisations whose product is software, for businesses that deal with consumers and vendors and collect significant amounts of personal data, and for companies that build or use artificial intelligence.
The people you will be working with
The lawyer who understands the architecture should be the one reading the contract.
How the practice works
Two principles shape every piece of advice we give.
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Notes on Indian technology law.
Written for the people who build or adopt technology rather than for other lawyers: what a law requires of a product, what it leaves open, and what can wait. New pieces are published as they are written.
Come and work with us
We are a small team, and everyone works directly with the partners. We have no open positions right now, but we are always glad to hear from people who are curious about technology law and want to learn how it works in practice.
What working here is like
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Say hello
Send us your CV and a few lines about yourself. Tell us what drew you to technology law, and share something you have written that you are happy with. An article, a moot memo or a blog post all work.
You do not need to write a formal cover letter. We read every application and keep it on file, and we will get in touch when a role opens that suits you.
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