Author Archives: Vijayashankar Na
Adjudicator Maharashtra on Privacy of employee data
In an interesting award from the Adjudicator of Maharashtra, an employer (Rud India Chains Private Limited) who fought the complaint of an employee (Amit Patwardhan) for privacy violation with the counter charge of employee sharing confidential company data with a rival company, … Continue reading
Netizens influence Elections
A study conducted by IRIS Knowledge Foundation, Mumbai has thrown up an interesting finding that nearly 28% seats in the Loksabha can be significantly influenced by the social media like Facebook. The study has listed 150 constituencies where there would … Continue reading
Comments on IT Rules from Center for Internet and Society
The Center for Internet and Society (CIS) has released a commentary on the rules which the DeiTy had released some time back on a) Electronic Service Delivery under Section 6A of ITA 2008 b) Reasonable Security Guidelines under Section 43A … Continue reading
The Power of “Na”
Today I came across an interesting caption of an article in afaqs.com viz “The Power of Na”. This refers to a social interest campaign urging citizens not to tolerate injustice and learn to oppose evil by saying “No”. (TV Commercial can … Continue reading
PIL on Appointment of Cyber Appellate Tribunal (CAT) again adjourned
The Government of India again failed to file its reply to the PIL filed in Karnataka High Court today regarding the request for early appointment of the Chair person for Cyber Appellate Tribunal in Delhi. The Government has failed to … Continue reading
CNN IBN highlights Problem on CAT
CNN IBN carried a program on 6th April 2013 on Cyber Crimes and issues on National Security etc in a half hour program based on interviews across different parts of the country. In particular it highlighted the issue of Bank … Continue reading