Author Archives: Vijayashankar Na

Data Trust Score (DTS) is a measure of the effectiveness of compliance of an organization to data protection law as assessed by an auditor. This brings visibility to the common man of how reliable are the data protection measures in … Continue reading →

The Supreme Court of India will start functioning again after vacation from July 11th. Unfortunately during the Vacation  the reputation of the Court has been damaged almost irreversibly. The responsibility to put it back on the rails is with the … Continue reading →

The “Obiter Dictum” maxim in law refers to the expression of an opinion by a Court during the proceedings which is not necessary for the decision of the case. Legally such statements lack the force of precedent. In a written … Continue reading →

The recent observations made by a judge of Supreme Court in the Court hall appears to have have crossed all limits of judicial propriety and created an environment of fear amongst the citizens of the country that Supreme Court does … Continue reading →

If media reports are to be believed, Meity is looking like a Mohamad Bin Tughlaq changing its stand again and again…. and again. It appears that there is no clarity on what is to be done in respect of the … Continue reading →

While a discussion is going on on the CERT-In Guidelines and the Data Protection Act in India, the United States  Cloud Act (2018) is said to offer an approach to enabling law enforcement agencies in India accessing data stored by … Continue reading →