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

WhatsApp needs to change its Jurisdiction clause in the Terms or else, exit from India.

WhatsApp has announced a new Privacy Policy and Terms of use effective from 8th February 2021. Since then there have been a series of debates in the media about the impact of the change and how should users react. Most … Continue reading

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NCLT has been Irresponsible in the case of Net4India

Judiciary and Quasi Judiciary authorities in the country have been accorded a special place in the structure of our democratic society. We respect them and fear them. With the increasing burden on the regular judicial institutions such as Courts, quasi … Continue reading

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Non Personal Data Governance Authority under the new recommendations should not interfere with DPA

The revised recommendations on the Kris Gopalakrishna Committee on Non Personal Data reiterates the significant role that the Non Personal Data Authority. It may be noted that the Committee has ab-initio been influenced by the industry to include a recommendation … Continue reading

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High Value DataSets (HVD) a new concept under the Revised Kris Gapalakrishnan report

In the previous article, we discussed the “Consent for Anonymization” which has been recommended by the revised report submitted by the Kris Gopalakrishan report. One other concept which has been suggested by the committee which requires some detailed look is … Continue reading

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Consent for Anonymization is a self contradiction and a potential violation of the fundamental right under Article 19(1)(g)

After the Kris Gopalakrishna Committee on Non Personal Data Governance (KGC) submitted its first report , public comments had been invited. Now the Government has published a revised report after receiving the comments and requested for a second round of … Continue reading

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Training and Accreditation of PDPSI Consultants and Auditors

Cyber Law College in association with FDPPI has earlier launched two programs related to building legal awareness on Data Protection Laws connected with the “Certified Data Protection Professional ” (CDPP) course. These were part of the larger 5 Module course … Continue reading

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