Category Archives: Cyber Law

Intellectual Property and Personal Data Protection

Intellectual Property created out of the IPR laws and Personal Data as a property recognized out of a law like DPDPA has some interesting relationship. IPR is associated with an author or an inventor and hence by default discloses the … Continue reading

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GMail must change its policies of e-mail delivery

At a time the MeitY is finalizing the rules to be notified under DPDPA 2023, we need to flag some of the erroneous practices of e-mail providers and domain name registrants that gives raise to Cyber Security concerns under the … Continue reading

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Rs 820 crore fraud in UCO Bank IMPS system busted

CBI has successfully investigated a fraud in UCO Bank where two support engineers manipulated the system which resulted in credits to accounts without a corresponding transfer of money from the sending bank to the receiving bank. See report in NewIndian … Continue reading

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Digi Locker has introduced “Nomination”

DPDPA 2023 has introduced “Nomination” as a right of a data principal. We have in our two previous articles discussed certain aspects of nomination. Why Privacy cannot survive the death of an individual? Relationship between IPR and Privacy It is … Continue reading

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Being Lawful is the first requirement of DGPSI

One of the requirements of DPDPA 2023 as a law of Digital Personal Data Compliance is that Personal Data shall be processed only for lawful purpose. Hence it is a compliance requirement that a Data Fiduciary shall adopt necessary measures … Continue reading

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Let DGPSI be a symbol of Compliance

DGPSI or Data Governance and Protection Standard of India is an approach that follows the principles of compliance that is indicated in the DPDPA 2023. Compliance to DGPSI means not only being in compliance with DPDPA 2023 but also to … Continue reading

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