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Justice Srikrishna is needlessly harsh

Justice Srikrishna calls new Data Protection Bill a blank cheque to the state..https://in.finance.yahoo.com/ This picture appeared in an article in Yahoo.com yesterday and quotes Justice B N Srikrishna who authored the famous report on Data Protection which finally led to … Continue reading

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Let’s together build Knowledge with Attitude and Commitment

Naavi.org was started (first as naavi.com) way back in 1998 with the objective of contributing towards “Building a Responsible Cyber Society”. In the process it continued to contribute towards “Developing Cyber Jurisprudence” by promoting independent interpretation of different aspects of … Continue reading

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Time to be accountable

This article of naavi is reproduced from India Legal magazine of February 22, 2020: Quote: On December 2018, the central government proposed to issue an amendment to the Intermediary Guidelines under Section 79 of the Information Technology Act, 2000 (ITA … Continue reading

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Media Mischief puts Cognizant in an embarrassing light

Cognizant is a respected MNC with significant stake in Indian data processing industry. It is not a company of the type Facebook, WhatsApp or Google who are known to have woven their business around harnessing (Exploiting?) “Personal Data” and profiling … Continue reading

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Breach Candy data breach incident could be the “I Love You” moment

In India, we are 20 years into the period since civil liabilities arising out of  Cyber Crimes became legally enforceable through a process of Adjudication. Since then, victims of Cyber Crimes are searching for Cyber Crime insurance. In June 2001, … Continue reading

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Breach Candy data breach may expedite passage of Personal Data Protection Act

According to the news reports published today medical records of over 120 million medical images of Indian patients and 1 million medical records got exposed due to a cyber incident.  The records have been made available online freely by the … Continue reading

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