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

Asatoma sadgamaya…Tamasoma Jyotirgamaya…Oh DVSI, Oh DVSI…

(DVSI stands for Data Valuation Standard of India… Refer www.dvsi.in for more information) Companies often face the dilemma on payment of ransom when their data is captured and held hostage by a ransomware attacker. The attacker fixes a certain price … Continue reading

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Right To Forget ..in Madras High Court

After the Delhi High Court and Orissa High Court indicating that Right to Forget can be extended to a right to remove reference to an accused in a Court Judgement, the Madras High Court has now rejected the “Right to … Continue reading

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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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