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

First Indian Survey of DPDPA Tools

Way back in 2015, Naavi had initiated India’s first survey of Cyber Insurance.  It was a survey to ascertain the status of the industry at that point of time. We presume it was useful to the industry and today the … Continue reading

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Leading Privacy Management Software and DPDPA

FDPPI has set up a SIG to evaluate Privacy Management tools available for DPDPA Compliance. The SIG is currently collecting information from users and evaluating them. Several Indian solutions providers are providing brief demos  to the FDPPI members during the … Continue reading

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Decoding AI terms …A Periodical Table Approach

Most of us are familiar with the “Periodic Table” used in Chemistry to group elements into different groups for better understanding  their properties and also to predict some missing members of a pattern. Now Mr  Martin Keen of IBM Technology … Continue reading

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Can CBDC-Retail be popularized?

When CBDC was introduced in India (Refer: “Article CBDC Will change the World Economic Order” in 2022, we had indicated that the CBDC-W was useful in substituting the SWIFT mechanism and can be extended to Exporters and Importers. We had … Continue reading

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Data Processors inherit responsibilities from the Data Fiduciary

  It is legally correct to say that DPDPA does not directly impose any liability  directly under the Act to Data Processors. The law only mandates that the Data Fiduciaries shall be responsible even for the processing done by the … Continue reading

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The day After DGPSI-HR discussion

Yesterday a cream of professionals in the Data Protection domain congregated to discuss a  framework of compliance titled “DGPSI-HR”. Since it was the first exposure of this framework, it was a time for most to absorb the information  and contemplate … Continue reading

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