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

Mumbai Police have rattled the Data Protection Law in India

The way Mumbai Police has handled the Republic TV case with -the reopening of a closed case -of what possibly was a murder and treating as a suicide – bringing in the abetment link for a business contract dispute, -deliberately … Continue reading

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New Opportunities open up for India thanks to Singapore PDPA

When Singapore amended its data protection laws increasing the penalties for data breach to 10% of the annual  turnover, a window of opportunity has opened up for India to attract investments of data processing companies to India. India presently is … Continue reading

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Security Incident Not amounting to Personal Data Breach-Lupin Incident

Lupin Suffers Information Security Incident-Business Insider The trend of Continuing cyber attacks on pharmaceutical companies, before the advent of the PDPA (Personal Data Protection Act of India) when companies are expected to have better security oversight seems to continue with … Continue reading

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Singapore PDPA amended… Fines can be 10% of turnover

Singapore passed some key amendments to the Personal Data Protection Act 2012 establishing a new norm for administrative fines at 10% of turnover. Now companies, with turnover exceeding Singapore dollar 10 million per year,  responsible for data breaches face financial … Continue reading

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Data Disputes Mediation and Arbitration Center to start under FDPPI

FDPPI (Foundation of Data Protection Professionals in India) is the Champion organization in Personal Data protection in India. Started in September 2018 under the leadership of Naavi, FDPPI has made significant strides in establishing itself as the torch bearer of … Continue reading

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Pharma data breaches should stop once data protection law comes into force

[Reproduced from India Legallive.com] Three major cyber attacks in the Indian pharma industry in the last few months have left people wondering whether there is a pattern indicating the reason for this spurt. First was the Breach Candy Hospital one … Continue reading

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