Author Archives: Vijayashankar Na

About Vijayashankar Na

Naavi is a veteran Cyber Law specialist in India and is presently working from Bangalore as an Information Assurance Consultant. Pioneered concepts such as ITA 2008 compliance, Naavi is also the founder of Cyber Law College, a virtual Cyber Law Education institution. He now has been focusing on the projects such as Secure Digital India and Cyber Insurance

How Sound is DPDPA on Fundamentals

DPDPA 2023 has come into existence as a law on August 11, 2023. In January 2025 MeitY issued a notification of draft Rules and opened it for public comments. However till today the rules have not been notified raising the … Continue reading

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“Role Based Data Access Management” needs to be redefined for DPDPA Compliance

“Role based Data Access Management” (RBDAM) is a common principle in Data Access Management. In a properly structured RBDAM, access permissions to data is configured based on the functional role of an individual rather than an administrative designation such as … Continue reading

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Digital India Corporation to assist MeitY in setting up of the Digital office of DPB

In an interesting development Meity appears to be taking further steps to implement DPDPA 2023 at the earliest. In this direction, the Government has sought an opinion from the AG regarding the conflict with RTI Act. NeGD has also taken … Continue reading

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The legal challenges triggered by the incident in Infosys

Since last two days, there has been a serious discussion in the media about the incident in Infosys Bengaluru where an employee has been accused of filming a female employee in a washroom. The person committing the crime has been … Continue reading

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AI agents as Virtual Employees

After the Covid times when physical employees were forced to work virtually, the IT world was slowly getting back to “Work From Office” culture. But this transition back to the legacy system is likely to get a jolt from the … Continue reading

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