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

PIL Filed in Madras High Court on Section 63 of BSA

Whenever an electronic document is to be presented as evidence in a Cour of law, the ITA 2000 expected a certificate to be produced about the reliability of the document for admission purpose. Earlier it was through Section 65B of … Continue reading

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FDPPI would like to facilitate DPDPA petitions in Supreme Court to be cleared at the earliest

(This is a continuation of the discussion on the seeking of scrapping of DPDPA and DPDPA rules by three petitioners in the Supreme Court) India has witnessed a continued battle on introduction of Privacy laws since 2 decades. Every time … Continue reading

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10 year journey with GDPR

On 25th May 2016, GDPR became a law. It provided a window of 2 years for implementaion and hence the law became effective from 25th May 2018. We now have the experience of 8 years of implementation and hundreds of … Continue reading

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The AI Summit ..Sarvam AI mayam…But where is AI security?

The India impact AI summit has been a great success despite the first day problem of crowd management and the needless embarassment caused by one of the exhibitors. It has created a high degree of awareness in the Indian public … Continue reading

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Supreme Court refers the DPDPA Challenge to a larger Bench

(This is a continuation of the discussion on the seeking of scrapping of DPDPA and DPDPA rules by three petitioners in the Supreme Court) OnĀ  16th February 2026, the Supreme Court heard the prelimary petitions challenging DPDPA 2023 from the … Continue reading

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DPDPA at the doors of Supreme Court

As expected, the law of DPDPA is now before the Supreme Court. Normally Courts are expected to step in when a citizen has an adverse impact of the law. and seeks remedy. However, in India, almost every law that gets … Continue reading

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