Author Archives: Vijayashankar Na

FDPPI is embarking on celebration of the International Data Privacy Day 2023 with a unique project to obtain a “Data Privacy Pledge” from the community. Those who take the pledge would be issued a certificate as below. The pledge can … Continue reading →

“Data” is accepted as an “asset”. “Personal Data” is in practice considered as an “asset belonging to the data subject”, the limited use of which can be transferred to a Data Controller under a contractual arrangement. In India we consider … Continue reading →

Kotak Mahindra Bank became the Sixth Bank in India to be declared under Section 70 of Information Technology Act 2000 as a “Protected System”. The Notification was issued on 11th January. Earlier, following Banks namely ICICI Bank, HDFC Bank, Bank of … Continue reading →

In the recent days, Government of India came up with two notifications related to electronic gaming which needs to be taken note of. E Sports The first is the Gazette notification declaring e-Sports as a part of “Multi Sports Events” … Continue reading →

Since December when CHATGPT3 was released as an openai tool, along with it’s associate “Dalle”, the IT world is in a state of cautious excitement. It appears that the world has reached a momentous stage where “Disruption” will be unleashed … Continue reading →

After GDPR became effective on May 25, 2018, many businesses had to re-work their personal data handling methods to ensure that the collection meets the requirements under Article 6 of GDPR related to “Lawfulness of Processing”. Article 6 of GDPR  … Continue reading →