Author Archives: Vijayashankar Na

About Vijayashankar Na

Naavi is a veteran Cyber Law specialist in India and is presently working from Bangalore as an Information Assurance Consultant. Pioneered concepts such as ITA 2008 compliance, Naavi is also the founder of Cyber Law College, a virtual Cyber Law Education institution. He now has been focusing on the projects such as Secure Digital India and Cyber Insurance

Relevance of Consumer Protection Act 2019 for Privacy

When DPDPA 2023 was enacted, the focus of legislation was “Digital personal Data” and the way the industry is expected to collect and process. The law was drafted as a “Principle based draft and did not find it necessary to … Continue reading

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Nexus between Big Tech and American Deep State

It was earlier known that American Deep state had access to data gathered by certain Big Tech Companies. Now it has been confirmed by Mr Mark Zuckerberg of Meta that the Big Tech Companies were actually partnering the American Deep … Continue reading

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Cognizant Accuses Infosys of Trade secret theft

The dispute between Cognizant and Infosys related to the alleged trade secret theft has now reached a Court in Dallas. Though media is calling it as a “Trade Secret theft”, it appears to be a plain data theft and not … Continue reading

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Deccan herald’s Bengaluru 2040 Summit

Deccan Herald, the leading native English Daily from Bengaluru is hosting the prestigious Bengaluru 2040 Summit today at JW Marriott, Vittal Mallya Road. This invitee only event is expected to see the participation of several ministers of Karnataka besides many industry … Continue reading

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Advisory from DOT on Removing content

The Telecommunications Act 2023 which is basically a regulation for the industry has certain provisions applicable to the use of Telecommunication services which has a bearing on the users as well. Most of the provisions of the Act became effective … Continue reading

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The concept of “Super Data Fiduciary”

While discussing DPDPA 2023, we have often discussed the role of a “Data Processor” who is actually determining the means of processing under a proprietary software and tagged him as a “Joint Data Fiduciary”. Yesterday I had an interesting discussion … Continue reading

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