Author Archives: Vijayashankar Na

The Government has released the draft DPDPA Rules for public consultation. Public can submit their feedback on the mygov.in website till 18th February 2025. The notification is available at https://naavi.org/uploads_wp/2025/dpdpa_draft_rules_english_.pdf The notification contains 22 rules and 7 schedules as follows. … Continue reading →

DPDPA is a law and compliance and by nature any legal provision is an area of uncertainty. There will be different interpretations to the law. The User’s perspective of the law is always in his favour and Consumer Courts often … Continue reading →

As we enter the dawn of 2025, we the data protection professionals in India shall adopt a New Year Resolution….to be DPDPA compliant within the environment in which we work. As a starting point we request every Corporate professional who … Continue reading →

The three day program for Certified Data protection professionals and Data Auditors will be conducted at Mumbai on January 24/25 and 26. The program is open for registration now at https://fdppi.iletsolutions.com/c-dpo-da-training-2025/ Those who attend the program will be provided with … Continue reading →

The reported breach of 6 million data sets of Ascension Health Systems opens up certain discussion points. The data breach followed a ransomware attack from Black Basta indicates caused by an accidental downloading of a malicious file. It is reported … Continue reading →