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

ICO UK issues basic guidelines on Anonymization

Anonymization is an important aspect of  Data Protection in India. It segregates Data into two categories namely Personal Data for which the proposed PDPA-India will be applicable as per PDPB 2019 and Non Personal Data which is outside this regulation. … Continue reading

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Call 112 if you face a Cyber Crime loss in Karnataka

In a commendable move, Karnataka Police has set up a special help desk to attend to Cyber Crimes involving financial crimes. See Report here The  Cybercrime Incident Report system, with a call center responding to calls at 112, will  be  … Continue reading

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Twitter wants a regime change in India… How long will the Government wait to act?

Naavi.org has been flagging the Twitter Controversy as a “War Against India”.  Twitter is confirming this more and more by their actions. Recently removing the verifiability tick of Vice President of India as also many functionaries of RSS is a … Continue reading

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It is the Bradman Vs Sobers debate between CISOs and DPOs

Cricket followers have long debated who is greater between Sir Don Bradman and Sir Gary Sobers. As a Batsman, Don Bradman was incomparable in the value he brought to his team. But a person like Gary Sobers with his all-round … Continue reading

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To All Chairpersons of Banks in India: Beware..Bitcoin lobby wants you to violate AML regulations

To All Chairpersons Banks in India Dear Sirs It has been reported in the media as if RBI has granted a new relief to the Bitcoin community by stating that  “Banks should not quote the 2018 circular” for not allowing Banking … Continue reading

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Non Scalability of Consent… How to overcome?

Indian PDPB2019 has made “Consent” as a mandatory requirement unless it is exempted. On the other hand GDPR considers Consent as only one of the legal basis under which personal data may be processed. The six different recognized ways by … Continue reading

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