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

Allahabad High Court trapped in another political PIL

Posted on January 6, 2019 by Vijayashankar Na

We are aware that the innocuous MHA order on designating 10 agencies through which a competent authority can order interception of electronic communication for reasons of security of state etc., has already been questioned through two PILs in the Supreme … Continue reading →

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Anti Data Localization Lobby and Anti Aadhaar lobby working to push PDPA Bill to the June Session?

Posted on January 5, 2019 by Vijayashankar Na

A Strong lobby in the industry is working against the Personal Data Protection Bill being passed with the current provisions which the Justice Srikrishna Committee has suggested. The principal objection of the lobby is to the provision of the Bill … Continue reading →

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Supreme Court should make public the suggestions made by Abhishek Manu Singhvi

Posted on September 12, 2018 by Vijayashankar Na

Yesterday, there was a hearing in Supreme Court about the RFP Tenders released by UIDAI and the objections raised on them by an MLA of TMC by name Mahua Moitra who is known as an “Aggressive” politician. The petition was … Continue reading →

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Surveillance and Monitoring are not the same

Posted on September 11, 2018 by Vijayashankar Na

When the honourable Supreme Court considered the issue of Section 66A of ITA 2000/8 and ended up scrapping the section as being violative of the Indian Constitution, we had raised the objection to the decision on the ground that the … Continue reading →

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“Supreme Court Slams UIDAI”.. Is it a fake news created by Economic times?

Posted on September 10, 2018 by Vijayashankar Na

There are “Mischievous journalists” around today in the media. Some of them are considered senior journalists and include the likes of Shekhar Gupta who try to pick up wrong narratives only with a view to discredit the Government. Mr Shekhar … Continue reading →

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Social Media Hub… Was the Supreme Court mislead by the political canvas

Posted on September 8, 2018 by Vijayashankar Na

The Supreme Court is the ultimate hope for justice in India and deserves to be respected and supported. But in recent days, it appears that Supreme Court is spending a disproportionate share of  its time in resolving political issues and … Continue reading →

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