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

DPDPA Rules: How will legacy data consent be handled?

According to DPDPA 2023, consent is to be obtained even for applicable personal data collected by a Data Fiduciary before the commencement of the Act as per the notification. Hence identifying such data and issuing notices to such data principals … Continue reading

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Will a Copy of draft Notice be part of the rules?

In one of the versions of the draft DPDPA rules which is under circulation, it is expected that the Government may provide a template for notice for consent. Accordingly a model notice as follows is expected to be part of … Continue reading

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Consent Manager and Account Aggregator

When the rules under DPDPA is released, apart from the definition of Significant Data Fiduciary, industry would be keenly looking at the rules related to “Consent manager”. This is one area where Naavi may have divergent views with one section … Continue reading

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Who is or Who Should be a Significant Data Fiduciary?

One of the keenly awaited rule under DPDPA 2023 is the criteria to be adopted by the Government for declaring a Data Fiduciary as a Significant Data Fiduciary. While the Act does not define “Sensitive Personal Data”, Section 10(1) brings … Continue reading

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Is there a strategic need for segregation of Ethics while defining AI Standards?

In India we are today discussing both regulation of AI and standardization of AI at the same time. Just as the EU-AI act is a regulation while ISO 42001 is a standardization, BIS is discussing AI standardization while ITA 2000 … Continue reading

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Towards AI standardization in India

We have started discussion on AI standardization in these columns some time back with a brief review of ethical standards that have been suggested by various international bodies as well as EU-AI act. In India, we have a tendency to … Continue reading

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