Author Archives: Vijayashankar Na

At present “Privacy Right” is considered as a “Right to be let alone”. However, in practice, “Protection of Privacy Rights” is reduced to “Protection of Information Privacy” which is essentially, giving protection to the “Right of Choice” of an individual … Continue reading →

India entered the era of Cyber Laws in 2000 with ITA 2000 and  made a soft entry to data protection law in 2009 with the notification of ITA 2008 and likely to enter the field of Data Protection law in … Continue reading →

India entered the domain of Cyber Laws on 17th October 2000 with the notification of the Information Technology act 2000 (ITA 2000). Several amendments were passed on this act in 2008 effective from 27th October 2009. These amendments gave a … Continue reading →

The JPC for PDPB decided to include parts of Non Personal Data regulation within the provisions of the DPA 2021. In the process a situation of overlapping jurisdiction was created between the ITA 2000 and DPA 2021. Earlier with Section … Continue reading →

Madras Management Association and FDPPI successfully conducted a one day symposium on DPA 2021-Compliance View, at Chennai, on 23rd April 2021 at the MMA auditorium. A large contingent of participants from ISACA and CySi who partnered the event made the … Continue reading →

On 4th January 2017, CERT IN had issued an order regarding reporting of incidents to CERT IN. The order has now been re-issued along with detailed instructions on other security measures which will be applicable to all service providers, intermediaries, … Continue reading →