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

The Dangers of allowing Guest Posts

Naavi.org has believed on knowledge dissemination and through out the 20 years of existence tried to spread knowledge freely. In the process, when some body wants to publish any article of their own on Naavi.org, I have obliged if the … Continue reading

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“National Self Reliance in Data Protection Certifications, Implementation and Audits”..FDPPI

The much awaited Module G program of the Foundation of Data Protection Professionals in India or FDPPI (www.fdppi.in) which will provide training on  many relevant Data Protection Laws of the world including GDPR, CCPA, Singapore PDPA, DIFC Data Protection law … Continue reading

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Data Governance Regulator may be designated by the Kris Gopalakrishna committee

According to a report in Business Standard  the Kris Goplakrishna Committee has submitted its report on “Data Governance” to the Government. One of the recommended regulations that has been leaked appears to be for setting up of a new regulator … Continue reading

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Virtual Meetings for Data Protection JPC should be considered.

It appears that the Personal Data Protection Bill 2019 is stuck with the Covid lock down of the Parliamentary activities. According to a report from Media Nama sources , there is a technical objection to use of “Virtual meetings of … Continue reading

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Differential Privacy and PDPA 2020

The proposed Indian Data Protection Act (PDPA 2020) refers to “Personal Data”,  “Anonymization”  and “De-identification/Pseudonymization”. Anonymisation is defined as an “Irreversible” process of transforming the personally identifiable data to a form where the identity is irreversibly removed. Anonymization frees the … Continue reading

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Atma Nirbhar in Data Protection… PDPSI will be the PDPA specific Implementation framework

While in India, the Personal Data Protection Act of India  (PDPA 2020) is awaiting clearance of the Parliament, Being compliant with the Personal Data Protection law has become the top of the mind concern for most corporate managers. Some ultra … Continue reading

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