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

FedEx courier Fraud

In recent times several frauds involving extortion of money by threatening a person that a parcel containing contraband items in his name has been seized by police and action is imminent on the individual. They then offer to help and … Continue reading

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Get Ready to be a Certified DPO and Data Auditor from FDPPI/Cyber Law College

Naavi’s Cyber Law College has just completed the first batch of CDPP-Module I as a 4 day week twelve hour program. The program is a one of its kind program which combined Privacy and Data Protection from DPDPA 2023 as … Continue reading

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Personal Data Processed by Automobile Pollution Control Certification Agents

Yesterday I took my vehicle for a Pollution control certificate to one agent X. I had not used him on earlier occasions and had been getting such certificates with others. The moment he read my number plate on the computer, … Continue reading

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“Privacy Pitamaha” title conferred on Justice (Rtd) K S Puttaswamy

Justice (Retd) Sri K.S. Puttaswamy, the person who initiated the Supreme Court petition on Privacy which finally ended up with the judgement on August 27, 2017 that Privacy is a Fundamental Right in India, is today 98 years old and … Continue reading

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Is Indian Express guilty of Privacy infringement under DPDPA and ITA 2000?…DPDPA is here…4

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

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