Author Archives: Vijayashankar Na

The UIDAI has launched a new Aadhaar App which according to the Secretary of MeitY , can be used for age verification under DPDPA. Necessary amendments have been made to SWIK rules or the  Aadhaar authentication for goog governance  (Social … Continue reading →

Whenever an electronic document is to be presented as evidence in a Cour of law, the ITA 2000 expected a certificate to be produced about the reliability of the document for admission purpose. Earlier it was through Section 65B of … Continue reading →

India has witnessed a continued battle on introduction of Privacy laws since 2 decades. Every time the Government makes an  attempt whether in 2006 when the Personal Data Protection Bill 2006 was introduced in the Parliamemnt by the then Government … Continue reading →

On 25th May 2016, GDPR became a law. It provided a window of 2 years for implementaion and hence the law became effective from 25th May 2018. We now have the experience of 8 years of implementation and hundreds of … Continue reading →

The India impact AI summit has been a great success despite the first day problem of crowd management and the needless embarassment caused by one of the exhibitors. It has created a high degree of awareness in the Indian public … Continue reading →

On  16th February 2026, the Supreme Court heard the prelimary petitions challenging DPDPA 2023 from the perspective of whether Section 44(3) and other sections  violate the Constitution. The three petitions which were heard were Venkatesh Nayak v. Union of India, … Continue reading →