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

Boys Locker Case backfires

Last week, a sensation was created in Delhi when some alleged conversations in Instagram chat  group consisting of boys of a school. It was alleged that the group had discussed a possible gang raping of one of their classmates. The … Continue reading

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Answering the critics of Arogya Setu

I would like to draw the attention of the critics of Aarogya Setu as expressed in the article that appeared today in TOI under the title, “Transparency and respect for Privacy are essential…to build trust which is totally absent from … Continue reading

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Race with Pakistan.. Should we not win?

It is interesting to note that Pakistan is coming out with the Personal Data Protection Act 2020 of its own and is challenging India to change the name of its Bill as otherwise we will have PDPA 2020 of Pakistan … Continue reading

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Quantum Computing takes a step further

We have earlier discussed certain concepts of “Quantum Computing” at this site and its impact on Cyber Laws of Evidence, Encryption security and Data Protection. I give below the links to those articles for a quick review: Quantum computing and … Continue reading

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Spreading Awareness of PDPA-India

After FDPPI completed the two certification programs for Data Protection Professionals (CDPP-I),  with a program of 18 hours of online teaching, Cyber Law College of Naavi has completed one more crash course of 12 hours for about 45 participants mainly … Continue reading

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Is Arogya Setu a Privacy threat? or a Security shield?

Critics are endangering the silent majority There are a class of critics in India who donot spare any opportunity in taking a dig at the Government for every decision and also take the issue to the Courts to challenge every … Continue reading

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