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

Indian Government to set up malware cleaning service center

In what can be considered as a commendable move, the CERT IN has indicated that it will shortly set up a “Malware Cleaning Service” to the public. It is expected to maintain a botnet hosting malware cleaning tool kits which … Continue reading

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Has LIC ignored Government Directions on digital payment incentives?

Recently, the Government of India announced several incentives to promote digital payments. These included 10% incentive on LIC payments. (Refer article here). The incentives announced were for the following transactions. 1.Discount of 0.75% on petrol and diesel sold through Government … Continue reading

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Confidentiality of Health Information…misapplied by Apollo hospital?..Jayalalitha Saga

The story of the former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Ms J.Jayalalitha’s hospitalization and the mysterious secrecy that shrouded her treatment has now become a topic of discussion on what is “Privacy” in the context of health care in India. Initially, … Continue reading

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Will the Ministry of Civil Aviation respond?

The honourable Minister of Civil Aviation Mr Ashok Gajapati Raju has earlier taken many customer friendly measures to improve the aviation service and now here is another occassion for the ministry under his leadership to show that it cares for … Continue reading

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Indira Gandhi International Airport employees commit Section 66 offence..Action called for from Ministry of Aviation

I hereby report that On 13th December 2016, a Section 66-ITA 2000/8 offence has been committed by some of the employees of the Air India counter at the Indira Gandhi International Airport and seek action both by the Police in … Continue reading

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Is RBI directly involved in fraudulent note exchange?

One of the issues bothering ordinary citizens is the fact that Enforcement Directorate has been seizing a lot of new currency notes in many raids even while there is a shortage in the Banks. So far, the suspicion was only … Continue reading

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