Author Archives: Vijayashankar Na

It has become a practice for organizations to send marketing e-mails with “Donot Reply” address. Today I came across the following email from Newsletter@indianexpressonline.org but the reply set to a non existent email address of emailers@indianexpressonline.org. Obviously the “Reply to” … Continue reading →

FDPPI had introduced an implementation and Certifiable audit framework for Data Privacy in the name of PDPCSI (Personal Data Protection Compliance Standard of India). This framework created by Naavi was meant to assist the organizations towards compliance of the data … Continue reading →

On September and october 2019, Naavi posted a series of articles on “Data Governance”. At that time a committee had been formed to develop a Data Governance Framework. This was also the time when Naavi embarked on his exploration of … Continue reading →

In the earlier three articles, we covered three steps towards DPDPA compliance namely Let’s now discuss the concept of BIA. We have earlier heard the concept of PIA (Privacy Impact Assessment) and DPIA (Data Protection Impact Assessment). In PIA we … Continue reading →

“Awareness” is a common word used by the industry whenever new developments like the DPDPA happens. We all start conducting more and more “Awareness Training Sessions”. But Awareness is often a surface level understanding and does not get deep into … Continue reading →

In the last two articles, we discussed how a Compliance oriented organization in India may react to the passing of the DPDPA with the following steps. Step 1: Conduct a Board Meeting in which the advent of the new law … Continue reading →