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

Concept of Concurrent Compliance

In our earlier article we had raised a term “Concurrent Compliance” as one of the goals of PDPSI. This was a new term coined after the more often used term namely “Concurrent Auditing”. In PDPB 2019, apart from the mandatory … Continue reading

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The New Digital India Act in the making-1 : Cyber Crimes under IPC?

A few months back, Naavi.org had started a discussion on “Shape of Things to Come” where several aspects of Data Protection Law was discussed through a series of articles. A total of 23 articles were published ending with “Cut paste … Continue reading

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“Concurrent Compliance” under PDPSI

While the Government of India is in the process of finalizing the Digital Personal Data Protection Bill (DPDPB), Naavi is busy in finalizing the new version of PDPSI incorporating the changes that have been brought in by the DPDPB2022. Once … Continue reading

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Public Consultation on Digital India Act launched

Honourable Minister of State for IT, Sri Rajeev Chandrashekar (RC) launched the first public consultation on the proposed Digital India Act 2023 (DIA2023) at Hotel Conrad, Bangalore on 9th March 2023. During the interaction, RC presented the thoughts of the … Continue reading

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Crypto Notification on PMLA

On 7th March 2023, the Finance ministry has issued a Gazette notification as follows. Read along with PMLA, this means that any person who is directly or indirectly associated with entities like the above will be exposed to penalties under … Continue reading

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Has LaMDA become Sentient?

(P.S: Meaning of Sentient=Able to perceive or feel things) LaMDA, the Google’s AI engine which is a supervised learning model as against the Pre trained model which GPT is, has been trained on the basis of  about 1.56 trillion words … Continue reading

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