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

3 changes proposed in DPDPB

According to a report in Economic times today following changes have been made in the earlier draft of DPDPB 2022. We presume that this does not make much difference in the compliance requirement. We shall wait and watch further developments. … Continue reading

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Extreme Risks in AI..Experts Warn of catastrophe ..

The recent developments in GPT 5, has prompted Google itself to sound out a warning that there are inevitable catastrophic consequences in the AI developments of recent times. While the Google Deepmind says that their teams are working on echnical … Continue reading

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GIFT city and GIFT Nifty

A quiet revolution has started in the Indian investment scenario with the opening of the trades in GIFT NIFTy from 3rd July 2023. This will have an impact not only on the Indian investment scenario but could have impact on … Continue reading

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AI regulation and the “New I Love You” moment

[P.S: Those of you who know the history of Cyber Law in India will remember that ITA 2000 was born on the aftermath of the global outbreak of the “I Love You” virus in 2000. This new “I Love You” … Continue reading

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Was Odissa Train Accident Cyber Terrorism?

There is a distinct reason to believe that the Odissa Balsore train tragedy was caused by either an error in Signalling system or by an error in the points shifting system. The net result was that the Coromandel express changed … Continue reading

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CRITEO penalty EUR 40m: CNIL needs to introspect

On June 15, CNIL, the French supervisory authority under GDPR imposed a penalty of EUR 40 million on CRITEO for failing to verify that the person from whom it processed data had given their consent. This is yet another case … Continue reading

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