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

Who is or Who Should be a Significant Data Fiduciary?

One of the keenly awaited rule under DPDPA 2023 is the criteria to be adopted by the Government for declaring a Data Fiduciary as a Significant Data Fiduciary. While the Act does not define “Sensitive Personal Data”, Section 10(1) brings … Continue reading

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Is there a strategic need for segregation of Ethics while defining AI Standards?

In India we are today discussing both regulation of AI and standardization of AI at the same time. Just as the EU-AI act is a regulation while ISO 42001 is a standardization, BIS is discussing AI standardization while ITA 2000 … Continue reading

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Towards AI standardization in India

We have started discussion on AI standardization in these columns some time back with a brief review of ethical standards that have been suggested by various international bodies as well as EU-AI act. In India, we have a tendency to … Continue reading

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Flagging the “Dark Pattern” in Money Control Pro Subscription consent

Yesterday, I made a post on the need for “Auto Renewals” to stop as per DPDPA. This post elicited the following response on linked-in from one of the followers which has opened up further interesting discussions. Quote: RBI has/had guidelines … Continue reading

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Auto Renewal of Subscriptions should go out of use

Recently I came across an issue related to my subscription at Money Control.com for what is called a premium subscription. Though I asked for its cancellation one day before its due date, Money control or nw18.com or E-Eighteen.com Ltd is … Continue reading

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AI should be prevented from Lying by design

An interesting article was found today a futurism.com about how AI is lying with intention. Referring to recent studies the article highlights that LLMs are deceiving human observers on purpose. This means that whether AI is sentient or not, technology … Continue reading

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