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

10 years after Naavi’s suggestion, “Data Embassy” concept is accepted by the Government !

Posted on February 3, 2023 by Vijayashankar Na

In 2013, Naavi had suggested a concept titled “Privacy Protection Zones” as a solution to India not having a Privacy Law but wanting to retain the data processing business. In 2015, Naavi highlighted this need along with other requirements  for … Continue reading →

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“Make AI in India and Make AI work for India”… Beware of takeover by the Anti-India brigade

Posted on February 2, 2023 by Vijayashankar Na

The budget speech of the Finance Minister Mrs Nirmala Seetaraman yesterday highlighted a project investment proposal to create three centers of excellence for Artificial Intelligence to be established in leading educational institutions to realize the objective of “Make AI in … Continue reading →

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An AI to detect an AI

Posted on February 2, 2023 by Vijayashankar Na

It is a common idiom to say “Set a thief to catch a thief”. A modified version of this phrase in the ChatGPT era is “Set AI to Catch AI”. GPTzero.me  is the new tool that has emerged to detect … Continue reading →

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Can DPDPB 2022 be a “Unified” law for regulating AI and MetaVerse ?

Posted on February 1, 2023 by Vijayashankar Na

DPDPB 2022 is a bill that is expected to come for discussion in the current Budget Session. According to Section 11.1 of the Bill, The Central Government may notify any Data Fiduciary or class of Data Fiduciaries as Significant Data … Continue reading →

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Understanding Elon Musk’s call for democratization of AI

Posted on January 31, 2023 by Vijayashankar Na

For some time now Naavi has been highlighting the dangers of AI and the possibility of an existential threat to the human society because of the Artificial Super Intelligence which can learn from its own observations and correct itself without … Continue reading →

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Data Protection Governance Framework

Posted on January 30, 2023 by Vijayashankar Na

Naavi has been advocating a Data Protection Compliance Framework for organizations to follow as a replacement of international frameworks like ISMS under ISO 27001/27701 etc., without diluting the requirements of these frameworks but enhancing them to many new Governance related … Continue reading →

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