Author Archives: Vijayashankar Na

(This article is written in the light of my participation in a panel discussion titled “Guardians of Data-Navigating the future with India’s Data Privacy Bill” in the upcoming Cloud Security Alliance conference in Bengaluru on December 13, 2023 and the … Continue reading →

The democratic society has long believed that “Journalism” is a noble profession and “Media” is an important part of the democratic society. As a result “Freedom of Press” was considered an important principle and was equated to “Freedom of Speech” … Continue reading →

(Continued from the previous article) The provisions of the Broadcasting bill 2023 are reproduced here. Structure of the Bill Chapter Sections Title I Preliminary 1 Short title, Commencement and Applicability 2 Definitions II Regulation of Broadcasting Services 3 Applicability of … Continue reading →

It appears that the Bangalore traffic police is generating bogus challans for whatever reasons they have found. I today observed a challan against one of the vehicles known to me. The challan is not backed by any evidence. The violation … Continue reading →

The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting released a draft of a new Bill titled Broadcasting Services (Regulation) Bill 2023 on November 10. This Bill is meant to replace the Cable Television Networks (Regulation) Act 1995 and will regulate the OTT … Continue reading →

While discussing the DPDPA 2023 compliance in the industry, the standard response we derive is “We are already GDPR Compliant which is a “Gold Standard” for Privacy and hence Indian data privacy law can only be a subset of GDPR … Continue reading →