Author Archives: Vijayashankar Na

The dispute between Cognizant and Infosys related to the alleged trade secret theft has now reached a Court in Dallas. Though media is calling it as a “Trade Secret theft”, it appears to be a plain data theft and not … Continue reading →

Deccan Herald, the leading native English Daily from Bengaluru is hosting the prestigious Bengaluru 2040 Summit today at JW Marriott, Vittal Mallya Road. This invitee only event is expected to see the participation of several ministers of Karnataka besides many industry … Continue reading →

The Telecommunications Act 2023 which is basically a regulation for the industry has certain provisions applicable to the use of Telecommunication services which has a bearing on the users as well. Most of the provisions of the Act became effective … Continue reading →

While discussing DPDPA 2023, we have often discussed the role of a “Data Processor” who is actually determining the means of processing under a proprietary software and tagged him as a “Joint Data Fiduciary”. Yesterday I had an interesting discussion … Continue reading →

In October 2024, a data breach was reported from Star Health and Allied Insurance which is reported to have breached data of about 170 million data subjects. Advocate Mr m G. Kodandaram has made a detailed legal analysis which is … Continue reading →

Further to the brief report on the FIR reportedly filed by Adarsh Builders on AWS India , AWS has responded through their public relations representative from “publicisconsultants-asia.com” as follows: “The claims against AWS in a recent news report are false. … Continue reading →