Author Archives: Vijayashankar Na
India Data Accessibility & Use Policy
While the Data Protection professional circles have been discussing the forthcoming DPA 2021, whether it will be taken up for further discussion in the Parliament or scrapped, the MeitY has sprung a surprise by releasing two documents yesterday the February … Continue reading
Long awaited measure for relief from cyber frauds
If this system works, we will be able to control a good part of cyber crimes. This will put brakes on crimes involving transfer of proceeds in INR. Next we need to ban Cryptocurrency to tackle the crimes at the … Continue reading
Conspiracy behind “Fresh Legislation” campaign
Yesterday Economic Times carried a report quoting anonymous sources within the Government of India that the Government may shelve the current version of the Bill and go for a fresh legislation. Today some of the other publications such as the … Continue reading
Will there be another revision of DPA 2021?
Economic Times carried a report today that there is one section of the officials who think that the JPC version of the Data Protection Act 2021 may be shelved and a new Bill may be drafted. The copy of the … Continue reading
Ujvala Consultants to undertake “Bias Auditing” of algorithms
One of the new requirements that has been brought into the Data Protection Audit in India through the DPA 2021 is the need for “Algorithmic Transparency”. Additionally all devices both software and hardware, that process data needs to carry a … Continue reading
Metaverse marriage
The Technology Craze has hit a new ceiling in the form of “Metaverse” which is an attempt to create a “Digital Game” and give it “Legal approval”. In pursuance of this craze, it has been reported that the first meta … Continue reading