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

Pegasus is a malware and can be anywhere

The current controversy on Pegasus in India arises from  the petitions filed by various persons who all have one thing in common that they are known to be opponents of the current Government. Just because all the petitioners are Anti … Continue reading

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Data Protection Journal of India ..Latest issue is now available

  Data has a value as everybody understands. But we need to go further in our discussion on what is the value of data, how it can be computed and how it can be brought into the balance sheet etc. … Continue reading

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This insane GDPR Fine on Amazon is self defeating

  Luxembourg Data Protection Authority (CNPD) has done great disservice to the Privacy Community by administering a fine of $887 million(Rs 6582 crores) on Amazon for using customer data for advertising purpose. The fine has been revealed by Amazon in … Continue reading

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Investors in Zomato and Paytm IPOs will eventually blame Narendra Modi

The Zomato public issue of shares to raise Rs 9735 crores of public money to a company which has been consistently making losses and has declared that it will continue to make losses even in the future is a dangerous … Continue reading

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SEBI and Zomato set to kill the Indian Start up industry

The IPO of Zomato which was issued at Rs 76 and got listed at Rs 125 has opened a Pandora’s box in the Indian stock markets.  This is not an information to rejoice. This is actually a serious threat to … Continue reading

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Pegasus controversy is political

Pegasus as a surveillance tool is known for some time. It is also known that “Intelligence” is a part of every Government’s activity not only in India but elsewhere. Amnesty International and the news agencies like Wire.com have no credibility … Continue reading

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