Author Archives: Vijayashankar Na

Over the last week, the media has been lambasting Bengaluru police for the couple of molestation complaints received during and immediately after the New Year celebrations in Bengaluru. TV channels including Times Now, NDTV, India Today and News X revelled … Continue reading →

Recently, the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (MeitY) has come out with a notification under Section 79 A of ITA 2008 indicating the norms for notification of a Government agency as an “Electronic Evidence Examiner” who can be called … Continue reading →

(This is a continuation of the previous article found here) ITA 2008 introduced a new section Section 79A under Chapter XIIA in which the following was narrated. Section 79A:  Central Government to notify Examiner of Electronic Evidence The Central Government … Continue reading →

On 2nd January 2017, the Government of India came out with a notification under Section 79A of ITA 2008 on a pilot scheme for notification of organizations under Section 79A as “Digital Evidence Examiners”. Since then some news papers are … Continue reading →

Classification of documents before distribution is one of the important activities of data managers in organizations. The better part of Information Security lies in properly classifying a document and tagging them properly for every end user to understand what he … Continue reading →

Around 2003, the undersigned had come up with a solution named “Digital Value Imprinted Instrument System” (DVIIS). This was a “Brick and Click” solution to many of the problems of physical instruments which have a monetary value including “Currency”, “Stamps”, … Continue reading →