Author Archives: Vijayashankar Na

To All Bankers, Economists in India Dear Friends, I have been highlighting the ill effects of Bitcoins and Private Crypto Currencies through these columns and urging the Government  to use the Crypto Currency Bill to ban all private Crypto currencies. … Continue reading →

One of the surprising inclusions in the recommendations of the JPC on PDPB is related to the SWIFT network.  The recommendation 8 states “The Committee observe that data protection in the financial sector is a matter of genuine concern worldwide, … Continue reading →

In designing the Data Protection regulations, problem areas have been a) Deceased data principals b) Legacy holdings of personal data c) Personal data of minor children. Having adopted “Consent” as a basic form of establishing lawfulness of processing, it is … Continue reading →

One of the recommendations (Recommendation 4) of the JPC regarding DPA 2021, is that the “Authority should ask the data fiduciaries to maintain a log of all data breaches (both personal and non-personal data breaches) to be reviewed periodically by … Continue reading →

In the PDPB 2018, a clear road map of implementation of the law had been provided. This had been removed in the PDPB 2019. However in the DPB 2021, the detailed implementation schedule has been suggested. This may be made … Continue reading →

The JPC report on PDPB 2019 contains 91 recommendations many of which are included in the main bill as amendments to PDPB 2019. The main amendments have been already discussed in several of our earlier articles. There are many small … Continue reading →