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

September 17, 2025, is the day of Transformation for Data Protection Professionals

All of us are aware of GPT, the Generative Pre-Trained Transformer, a system where you give an input and the system will generate a new text or picture or audio or video which should normally be more meaningful than the … Continue reading

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Get Ready for the Knowledge Conference..IDPS 2025

For FDPPI, IDPS 2025 is an annual pilgrimage into the world of Data Protection. The IDPS 2025 is a special event where multiple cities are participating in the event. On 17th September, IDPS 2025 will formally get launched  at Bangalore … Continue reading

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Thanks to Trump DPDPA implementation may be fast tracked

A couple of days back, we  had the news that Google has been fined $3.5 billion (Rs 31000 crores) under EU competition act because of their advertising policy. Earlier there have been multiple EU fines under GDPR which Google  has … Continue reading

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Are AI companies encouraging users to develop romantic relationship with the AI models?

A new research in EU is exploring the issue of some AI Chat Bot models encouraging intimate conversations. (Refer: Is your AI trying to make you fall in love with it?) In a recent paper, researchers at open-source AI company Hugging … Continue reading

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Facing the Future: PDP Compliance and AI as Twin Challenges, By M G Kodandaram

Mr M.G.Kodandaram, IRS, Assistant Director (Retd), Advocate and Consultant, Bangalore, has contributed a insightful article on the twin challenges of DPDPA and AI, which is the theme of the IDPS 2025. We thank Mr Kodandaram for his detailed exposition o … Continue reading

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Power of State Government to make laws for Electronic Documents

  Consequent to the new Gaming Act passed by the Government of India, there is a pressure from the Gaming companies to persuade the State Governments to frame their own laws so that in the case against the Central law, … Continue reading

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