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

Black Money is the ultimate winner in the Crypto war

[Indian Economy being killed for the sake of Crypto Currency survival] According to earlier reports, the Crypto Bill was expected to be discussed by the Cabinet on 15th/16th December 2021.  So far there is no information and it appears that, … Continue reading

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Copy of the Bill for Data Protection Act 2021 now available

The copy of the Bill tabled in the Parliament for Data Protection Act 2021 is now available in its official version. Kindly check DPA2021  for details. Naavi

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Crypto Bill and DPB2021 both may be presented in the Parliament today

According to information floating around, the Data Protection Bill 2021 which is the next version of PDPB 2019 as modified by the JPC-1 under Mrs Meenakshi Lekhi and JPC-2 under Mr P P Chaudhary is likely to be presented in … Continue reading

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IMF warns about Macro instability if Cryptos are recognized as legal

IMF has given a clear warning that if Crypto currencies are recognized as legal tender, there would be a macro economic instability. Read here Also here Some of the comments made by IMF are: Consumer protection risks remain substantial given … Continue reading

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New Version of PDPA 2020

Naavi had published the book on “Personal Data Protection Act of India (PDPA 2020) which was based on the version of the bill presented in the Parliament as PDPB 2019. Now the Government has made changes and is in the … Continue reading

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PDPA 2021: The Data Protection Officer is now in an elevated professional status

One of the interesting new propositions in the PDPB 2021 as compared to PDPB 2019 is the professional status of the Data Protection Officer. In all data protection laws, there is a requirement that  data controllers/Fiduciaries who handle large number … Continue reading

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