Author Archives: Vijayashankar Na

The Government of India Gazetted the DPDPA on August 11 2023. The Minister of IT Sri Rajeev Chandrashekar has announced that the DPB will be constituted and some rules will be notified within the next 3 weeks. Under the DPDPA … Continue reading →

The world has crossed an important red line with the humanoid robot namely Mika, which is functioning as a CEO of a company. Mika is said to be the sister of Sophia, which earlier had created history by being the … Continue reading →

India is in the process of revising its age old Criminal law namely the Indian Penal Code 1872 and Criminal Procedure Code 1973 with the new laws Bharatiya Nyaaya Samhita and Bharatiya Nagarik Surakshita samhita 2023 drafts of which are … Continue reading →

FDPPI which is in the forefront of Privacy and Data Protection Compliance related activities in India released a framework for Compliance and Certifiable Audit titled “Data Governance and Protection Standard of India (DGPSI) in Bangalore at Hotel Chancery. The Following … Continue reading →

Justice Sri Koratagere S Puttaswamy (retd) the petitioner on the Supreme Court case which led to the Privacy Judgement of the Justice Kehar bench on 24th August 2017 and the passing of the DPDPA 2023 was honoured in a historic … Continue reading →

October 17 each year we remember to celebrate as the “Digital Society Day” recognizing that on this day in 2000 India moved from a “No Legal Recognition” for digital documents to “Legal Recognition of electronic documents” and “Digital Signature” paving … Continue reading →