The contents of Naavi’s website www.neurorights.in are now easily accessible on Google play store for Android phones. The link is below.
Naavi
Day 3 of the IDPS 2022 went on well and the three day virtual conference was successfully closed with a valedictory address from Dr Anantha Prabhu, Professor of Engineering at Sahyadri College, Mangaluru.
The day started with a presentation from Advocate (Dr) Prashant Mali on the Adjudication and Appellate Tribunal system for Data Protection.
Dr Srinivas Yamanandra, of PayTM then spoke about Artificial intelligence and the issues related to Ethics.
In a well articulated speech, Dr Srinivas explained many nuisances about Artificial Intelligence with examples on how it can be used beneficially.
In a subsequent session, Mr Harpreet Singh Bhatia, CEO of Ibentos gave a presentation on how online interactions are changing. He spoke in depth on the use of MetaVerse for online interactions.
Another highlight of the day was the presentation on Neuro Rights by Naavi taking the discussion which was started by Dr Rafael Yuste on Day 1, further.
There were three insightful panel discussions on the day all of which were extremely interesting.
In the first panel discussion under the moderation of Mr Subbarayudu, This panel discussed Data Valuation and Data Monetization aspects.
The next panel moderated by Mr Ramesh Venkataraman discussed Data Audits and different frameworks present and upcoming.
During the discussions, Naavi explained how the Data Protection Compliance Standard of India (DPCSI) covers most of the constraints that are observed in the current frameworks.
The third panel moderated by Mr Radharaman with Ms Reena Bengeri and Alok Arora as members, discussed the need for sectoral codes of practice.
The Program then culminated with a summary presentation by Mr Ramesh Venkataraman and the valedictory address by Dr Ananta Prabhu.
In summary the event went on extremely well.
The videos of each of the sessions as well as the videos made available in the repositories section would be made available shortly. Watch out for information in this site.
We are now in the process of collecting feedback on the program for which a small feedback form will be sent by the FDPPI team to all the participants as well as those who go through the recorded videos in the next few days.
Naavi
The third and last day’s program in IDPS 2022 is as follows.
The Day 2 ended successfully with 4 key note addresses and three panel discussions.
The day was full of discussions on Technology. It started with the presentation of Mr Srinivas Poosarla of Infosys on Artificial intelligence and followed by automation of Data Security Governance by Vamsikrishna of QRC.
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The Star session of the day was the presentation of Dr Pavan Duggal on Privacy in the Meta Verse era where he brought out the nuances of legal issues that emerged from the new technology.
He pointed out that Meta Verse has a potential to be misused like the Artificial Intelligence and this has to be recognized and handled by the law makers. He made references to the current law in the form of ITA 2000 and indicated how it can be extended to Meta Verse in many ways but advocated for a refinement of the law to address the Meta Verse.
In the other Key Note address on Continued Relevance of ITA 2000, Commander Mukesh Saini extended the discussions to again highlight the presence of ITA 2000 as the current Data Protection Law of India.
He also touched on the CERT In guidelines and gave the perspective of the legal scenario for Privacy Protection in India.
There were three panel discussions during the day one on Privacy in Corporate DNA, Cross border transfer of data and the other on Emerging Technologies and Challenges.
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All the three discussions provided wonderful insights into the issues and challenges in the respective area and also discussed the solutions thereof.
The video content of all sessions will be available shortly and will be provided .
We now await the third and final day proceedings today.
Naavi
The Day 1 of the IDPS 2022 went well. The highlight of the day was that for the first time in India, the im
portance of Neuro Rights was highlighted by none other than Dr Rafael Yuste, Professor of Biological Sciences and Neuro Sciences in the University of Columbia, USA. (Copy of the video is available here)
Naavi intends to take this discussion on the need for Neuro rights further. Naavi has already been recording these developments at www.neurorights.in.
The second highlight of the day was the talk of Naavi on his wish list for the new data protection law in the making in India.
We will document these suggestions and submit it to the Government at the appropriate time.
On the occasion of IDPS 2022, FDPPI gave away a few awards to selected professionals in recognition of their contributions to the Privacy and Data Protection world in India.
We take this opportunity to congratulate all the winners, Ms Alok Arora, Ms Vasanthika Srinath, Mr Mahendra Limaye, Mr Manoj Srivastava and Mr Vinod Kumar.
The program was inaugurated by Mr Rakesh Maheshwari, Senior Director of MeitY and Mr Vinayak Godse, CEO of DSCI and Mr Nanda Mohan Shenoy, CEO, BestFit Solutions delivered key note addresses
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The videos of the presentations made by the above will be available in due course on FDPPI.
We now look forward to Day 2.
Naavi
November 9, 2022 was an important day when my 14 year old crusade for justice for S Umashankar who had lost money in a Phishing fraud at ICICI Bank reached a significant milestone. A judgement was pronounced by Madras High Court dismissing the appeal of ICICI Bank against the order of the TDSAT.
The episode started on 2nd September 2007 when the following e-mail was received by an NRI customer of ICICI Bank, Tuticorin. This was later identified as the phishing mail.
The mail had come from the same email from which the Bank was sending monthly statements and he considered it as having come from the Bank and proceeded.
(Though the customer was perhaps not aware, it was later pointed out in the Trial that the URL provided as the phishing link was a sub domain of ICICI Bank (https://verification.icicibank.com) which meant that the ICICI Bank server had been hacked and mail was being sent from there. Such hacking had been pointed out by Naavi.org earlier in one case of an educational institute.)
After the phishing mail having been responded, a sum of Rs 646000/- was transferred to a Mumbai Fort branch account of ICICI Bank in 6 transactions of Rs 1 lakh each and one of Rs 46000/- in quick succession on 6th and 7th September 2007.
ICICI Bank refused to accept its responsibility for the fraud and the customer approached the Adjudicating officer in Tamil Nadu through Naavi as a power of attorney holder and filed the application in June 2008. This was the first case for Adjudication in India.
After several rounds of enquiry, the Adjudicator gave a speaking order in 2010 awarding compensation to the customer.
ICICI Bank went on appeal to Cyber Appellate Tribunal and after a series of hearings, the case was posted for judgement and 3 days before the judgement the Chairperson attained super annuation and the case got stuck up till TDSAT took over Cyber Appellate cases in 2018. After several hearings TDSAT upheld the order of the Adjudicator .
This time ICICI Bank appealed in Madras High Court and the proceedings were held for about 2 years interrupted by the Covid and finally on 9th November 2022, the appeal was dismissed.
The case is considered historic as the first adjudication case and for the fact that Bank was held liable for negligence.
In both Adjudication, CyAT and TDSAT, the undersigned argued under a power of attorney.
In Madras High Court due to some technical issues, Naavi was recognized as a consultant to assist the Court and the arguments were finally made by an advocate Mr M A Ranganath.
Finally the Appeal has been dismissed and TDSAT judgement prevails.
We need to wait and see if ICICI Bank goes on an appeal to Supreme Court or closes its fight.
Under ITA 2000 adjudication is expected to be completed in 4-6 months and Appeal in the Tribunal in 6 months. But this case went for 12 years in Adjudication and CyAT out of which major delay was the non appointment of the Chair person in CyAT.
The case indicates the inefficiencies in the system which needs correction.
Since 2007 to this day, things have changed even in Banks and better security measures have been introduced. RBI has also introduced the Zero Liability system and very recently measures have been initiated to stop payment at the transferee Banks.
The recklessness shown by ICICI Bank in this case is beyond imagination and is a great example of what should not be done. It is a good case study for Bankers which should be used in Bank Training Colleges.
The case has already been part of examination question in some premier Law Colleges and it will be more often be used now after the High Court decision.
Naavi
