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

Re-skilling from IT to Data Protection

“Disruption” is a word familiar to the technology world. Several technology developments have disrupted several industries in the past. At that time we welcomed the development as part of the innovation trend. Now Artificial intelligence, the Open-ai project is having … Continue reading

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Take this Data Privacy Pledge as part of International Data Privacy Day 2023

FDPPI is embarking on celebration of the International Data Privacy Day 2023 with a unique project to obtain a “Data Privacy Pledge” from the community. Those who take the pledge would be issued a certificate as below. The pledge can … Continue reading

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Cross Border Transfer of Data as an International Property issue

“Data” is accepted as an “asset”. “Personal Data” is in practice considered as an “asset belonging to the data subject”, the limited use of which can be transferred to a Data Controller under a contractual arrangement. In India we consider … Continue reading

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Kotak Bank Notified as Protected System and Obligations of a Protected System owner

Kotak Mahindra Bank became the Sixth Bank in India to be declared under Section 70 of Information Technology Act 2000 as a “Protected System”. The Notification was issued on 11th January. Earlier, following Banks namely ICICI Bank, HDFC Bank, Bank of … Continue reading

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e-Sports and Online Gaming

In the recent days, Government of India came up with two notifications related to electronic gaming which needs to be taken note of. E Sports The first is the Gazette notification declaring e-Sports as a part of “Multi Sports Events” … Continue reading

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ChatGPT 3 and the future…

Since December when CHATGPT3 was released as an openai tool, along with it’s associate “Dalle”, the IT world is in a state of cautious excitement. It appears that the world has reached a momentous stage where “Disruption” will be unleashed … Continue reading

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