Monthly Archives: October 2018

Bengaluru as the Data Protection Capital of India

Naavi has been in the forefront of creating awareness of Cyber Laws in India. In 2005, Naavi had taken up a program called “Karnataka Cyber Laws Awareness Movement” under which several programs were undertaken in Karnataka. Now time has come … Continue reading

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Let Data Protection Law of India define the Instrument creating a Data Fiduciary

The Draft of Personal Data Protection Act 2018 (PDPA 2018) which is being discussed in the Parliament has one extremely important hurdle to be crossed. The hurdle is how to establish a relationship between the Data Principal and the Data … Continue reading

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FDPPI submits its Comments on PDPA 2018

FDPPI, an organization of Data protection Professionals in India has presented its comments on the draft PDPA 2018 (Personal Data Protection Act 2018) as presented by the Ministry of Electronics Information Technology (MeitY) under the recommendation of the Justice Srikrishna … Continue reading

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Last Day for Comments on PDPA 2018 is 10th October

The draft of the Personal Data Protection Act 2018 has been submitted by the Justice Srikrishna Committee along with its report. Copies of both are available at  www.pdpa2018.in. The Government of India has requested for public comments to be submitted on … Continue reading

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The Cosmos Bank fraud.. Could better security at NPCI have prevented it?

The recent fraud in which Rs 94 crores were siphoned off the Cosmos Bank system on August 11th and 13th through over 14800 ATM withdrawals has once again highlighted that for fraudsters it makes no difference if the money comes … Continue reading

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Aadhar Judgement-10: Let us debate the changes required in PDPA 2018

This is in continuation of the series of articles on this topic Over the last 9 articles on Aadhaar Judgement, I have provided some views on the interpretation of the Judgement specifically with reference to the upcoming PDPA 2018 which … Continue reading

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