Author Archives: Vijayashankar Na

In India we have a strange Governmental oversight on IT law and IT promotion. The conflict in MeitY being the law maker as well as the promoter of IT is getting more and more pronounced b the day. One recent … Continue reading →

On October 29, 2026, MeitY released a framework called “Data Empowerment for AI Training” (DEPA-AIT).  This document is an initiave for strengthening the development of indigenous foundation models making available training data in a systematic manner.  It poposes a national … Continue reading →

FDPPI has a tradition of conducting an annual flagship program on Data Protection under the brand name of IDPS or Indian Data Protection Summit. Started in 2020, this year is the seventh IDPS year. IDPS 2025 was conducted in Bangalore … Continue reading →

FDPPI had released an AIGSI version 1.2 on 28th June 2026 and publiushed it on www.dgpsi.in. This Version 1, released in August 2026, brought together DGPSI-AI, the RBI Guidance on Model Risk Management and the CERT-In Guidelines on AI vulnerabilities. … Continue reading →

We seem to be entering an inflexion point on AI regulation in India with multiple agencies holding out their own perspectives on What is the AI liability, AI Governance and AI Audit with DSCI, FDPPI and CERT In expressing their … Continue reading →