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

Complaint against L G Electronics

From Today, L G Electronics has introduced a new provision for access to the Smart TV feature requiring acceptance of 5 different agreements including the Terms of Service, Privacy Policy, Viewing Information Agreement, Voice Information and Interest based advertisement agreement. … Continue reading

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Right to Seek Compensation… Is it available in DPDPB 2022?

Digital Personal Data Protection Bill 2022 (DPDPB 2022) provides the following rights to the data principals namely 1.Right to Access 2.Right to Correction and erasure 3.Right to Grievance Redressal 4.Right to Nominate There is no specific mention about the “Right … Continue reading

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PDPSI comes back

Naavi had introduced the framework of PDPSI as Personal Data Protection Standard of India to provide a framework of compliance for compliance of PDPB 2019, the earlier draft Bill for data protection in India. However, when JPC 2 modified the … Continue reading

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DPDPB 2022: Cost of Non Compliance

One of the first things Companies look for in the Data Protection Bill is what is the cost of non compliance. It appears that the Government has been a little generous to the industry in this respect. The first observation … Continue reading

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DPDPA-2022 ..Ducking and Swaying aside may be OK for Round 1 and not for the full match

The drafting of  DPDA 2022 signifies an approach completely different from the drafting principles adopted earlier. It appears that an entirely different team worked on the Bill. It is not clear if the Ministry of Law would be comfortable with … Continue reading

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Draft of DPDPB 2022..Simple..information on need to know basis..less scope for objections

The draft of DPDPB 2022 (Digital Personal Data Protection Bill 2022) has been very cleverly drafted by avoiding unnecessary details to give less scope for critics. The Bill seems to adopt a principle that the Act needs to contain only … Continue reading

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