Author Archives: Vijayashankar Na

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 →

This is a famous quote from John Dryden, an English Poet. I am reminded of this while commenting on the DPDPA 2023 which by design or accident has many hidden gems that we often ignore in criticising the law. In … Continue reading →

Until Mr Shakti Kant Das was the Governor of RBI, it appeared that RBI could be relied upon for taking care of the interest of the public. In the Bit Coin case, RBI had taken a bold principled stand which … Continue reading →

Amazon Web Services has been blamed by a builder in Bengaluru for a data loss of over Rs 150 crores and an FIR is reported to have been registered by CCB, Bangalore. According to the report in Deccan Herald, Adarsh … Continue reading →