Author Archives: Vijayashankar Na

Singapore passed some key amendments to the Personal Data Protection Act 2012 establishing a new norm for administrative fines at 10% of turnover. Now companies, with turnover exceeding Singapore dollar 10 million per year,  responsible for data breaches face financial … Continue reading →

FDPPI (Foundation of Data Protection Professionals in India) is the Champion organization in Personal Data protection in India. Started in September 2018 under the leadership of Naavi, FDPPI has made significant strides in establishing itself as the torch bearer of … Continue reading →

[Reproduced from India Legallive.com] Three major cyber attacks in the Indian pharma industry in the last few months have left people wondering whether there is a pattern indicating the reason for this spurt. First was the Breach Candy Hospital one … Continue reading →

Naavi.org has been time and again pointing out that Bitcoins and Crypto Currencies are like the drug menace and have to be eliminated from India if we are serious about rooting out corruption and cyber crimes. I still believe that … Continue reading →

It is interesting to note the news report in Republicworld.com which states that Quora has disabled the account of “True Indology” classifying one of its posts as “Hate speech”. The post has been reproduced here: “After the partition of India, … Continue reading →

In a bid to appear non partisan, the Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) on Personal Data Protection Bill 2019, has invited not only the industry associations but also many individual foreign technical giants to depose before itself. If Amazon, Twitter, Google, … Continue reading →