Author Archives: Vijayashankar Na
PDPA 2021: The nature of Data as an Asset and nomination facility
India enacted ITA 2000 (Information Technology Act 2000) with effect from 17th October 2000 and amended it in 2008 with effect from 27th October 2009. The provisions of ITA 2000/8 included legal recognition for a binary expression which we refer … Continue reading
NALSAR launches the Course on International Data Protection Laws
When ITA 2000 was enacted in the year 2000, Cyber Law College started virtual course on “Certificate in Cyber Laws”. It took several years more for traditional academic institutions to introduce formal courses on Cyber Laws. Initially Cyber Law College … Continue reading
PDPA 2021: Regulating the human perceptions
(This is in continuation of our previous article) While discussing the PDPA 2021 and inclusion of Section 3(23)(xi) we observe the following: Current PDPB 2019 Section 3(20) Proposed PDPB 2021 Section 3(23) (20) “harm” includes— (i) bodily or mental … Continue reading
PDPA 2021: Definition of Harm to include psychological manipulation
PDPA is a legislation that is meant to uphold the human right concept of “Privacy”. Privacy is a concept which reflects the “State of Mind” of an individual and a feeling of “being left alone”. According to human psychologists, Hypnotists … Continue reading
What is the next Excuse for not banning Crypto Currencies?
Black Money in India is more powerful than even Mr Modi. Hence banning of Crypto Currencies which means banning of Digital Black Money cannot be done easily by the Government even of Mr Modi or Mr Amit Shah would swear … Continue reading
PDPA 2021: Should Big Data and Data Analytics industry be worried?
PDPB 2019 (Personal Data Protection Bill 2019) was in its current draft stage since December 2019. In the last two years, the JPC held an incredible 78 meetings of which the first 66 were chaired by Mrs Meenakshi Lekhi who … Continue reading