India, June 18 -- The Bombay High Court on Tuesday permitted actor and entrepreneur Preity Zinta to sue Google LLC and other online platforms over alleged breach of her personality rights and copyright via deep fake videos, memes, manipulated images, AI-generated chatbot personas and other digital content.

A single-judge bench of justice Abhay Ahuja allowed Zinta's petition seeking leave of letters patent, thus permitting the actor to file an injunction suit. Since the offending activities and actions were hosted on online platforms and several respondent parties had their offices outside Mumbai, part of the cause of action had arisen outside the jurisdiction of the court, the bench noted in furtherance of Zinta's submissions. In grantin...