Monthly Archives: February 2020

Let’s together build Knowledge with Attitude and Commitment

Naavi.org was started (first as naavi.com) way back in 1998 with the objective of contributing towards “Building a Responsible Cyber Society”. In the process it continued to contribute towards “Developing Cyber Jurisprudence” by promoting independent interpretation of different aspects of … Continue reading

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Time to be accountable

This article of naavi is reproduced from India Legal magazine of February 22, 2020: Quote: On December 2018, the central government proposed to issue an amendment to the Intermediary Guidelines under Section 79 of the Information Technology Act, 2000 (ITA … Continue reading

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First Set of Certified Data Protection Officers in India are set to emerge

February 23rd 2020 is set to be a historic day in the development of Data Protection eco system in India. It is the day when the very first batch of professionals are facing their challenge for getting certified by the … Continue reading

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Media Mischief puts Cognizant in an embarrassing light

Cognizant is a respected MNC with significant stake in Indian data processing industry. It is not a company of the type Facebook, WhatsApp or Google who are known to have woven their business around harnessing (Exploiting?) “Personal Data” and profiling … Continue reading

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Is Insurance Industry ready for PDPA?

On 7th February 2020, I attended a day long seminar in Hotel Trident, Mumbai organized by the National Insurance Academy Pune jointly with Swiss RE. The program titled “Digital Disruption..Embracing Digital Innovation in [RE] Insurance business” was a grand success … Continue reading

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PDPA Risk Insurance

India is in the threshold of a new legislation called Personal Data Protection Act (PDPA-2020). One of the most striking factors that this legislation represents is that organizations processing “Personal Data” in any form, including the Government departments will here-after  … Continue reading

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