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

In a Hospital, “Data is Life” — and a “Data Breach” is a “Patient-Safety Event”

We have discussed in these columns, more than once, that of all the Data Fiduciaries the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 has created, the hospital occupies a category of its own. The reason is captured in a single line … Continue reading

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RBI AI Guidelines for Public Comments-2

This is in continuation of our earlier post on “Model Risk Management” guidelines released by RBI as draft for public comments.  (Copy of guidelines) Let us discuss the “Chapter II” of the draft guidelines on “Governance”. This chapter prescribes that … Continue reading

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Excellence in Safety: One day Workshop in Secunderabad

An Interesting Workshop on Healthcare is being organized by KIMS Hospitals in Secunderabad on 27th June 2026. Details are as follows.   Naavi is happy to participate in the event. Naavi

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RBI Guidelines for AI for Public Comments-1

In continuation of our previous post,  here is an outline of the 16 page draft guidelines issued by RBI on AI usage in Regulated Entities (RE), for public comments. The scope of the guideline  has been defined broadly as to … Continue reading

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RBI Issues Draft Guideline for AI usage ..For public Comments

Recently the Supreme Court released a comprehensive guidance on the use of AI in Judiciary for which comments were filed by Naavi/FDPPI ( Copy of  comments ) , after many articles here.  Some time back, Naavi.org had reported about the Bhattacharya … Continue reading

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RBI updates “Limited Liability Circular” for Bank Frauds

Reserve Bank had issued the draft Reserve Bank of India (Responsible Business Conduct) Third Amendment Directions, 2026 on March 6, 2026 for seeking feedback from stakeholders. The draft Amendment Directions inter alia proposed to enhance the scope of existing instructions on limiting … Continue reading

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