Author Archives: Vijayashankar Na

The MeitY had announced Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics guidelines on 25th February 2021 which had evoked the Anti-CAA kind of response from the industry. Several High Courts (Kerala, Bombay and Madras)came up with their own interim orders  truncating … Continue reading →

It was a great pleasure for me to read the article today written by Advocate Dr Mahendra Limaye of Nagpur highlighting the need to strengthen the recipient side process of digital payments. As many of the readers know, Naavi has … Continue reading →

According to a report in Economic Times, SEBI has reportedly advised all mutual fund AMCs to report any information on Cyber incidents within 6 hours to CERT IN and SEBI, within 6 hours of noticing such incidents. This is keeping with … Continue reading →

Madurai Bench of Madras High Court cancelled the bail grated earlier to a youtuber Sattai Durai Murugan for posting an offending video. The Court (Justice B Pugalendhi) observed that the records show Mr Durai Murugan to be a habitual offender … Continue reading →

For a long time, there has been a set of vested interests in India who have been opposing the “Data Localization” concept. They succeeded in diluting PDPB 2018 to PDPB 2019/DPA2021 and removed the need for a copy of non … Continue reading →

For a long time, WhatsApp and its supporters argued that technically it is not possible to track the origination of messages. When the Government introduced the provision as a notification under ITA 2000, technology experts in India endorsed the claim … Continue reading →