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

The AI Summit ..Sarvam AI mayam…But where is AI security?

Posted on February 19, 2026 by Vijayashankar Na

The India impact AI summit has been a great success despite the first day problem of crowd management and the needless embarassment caused by one of the exhibitors. It has created a high degree of awareness in the Indian public … Continue reading →

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Supreme Court refers the DPDPA Challenge to a larger Bench

Posted on February 17, 2026 by Vijayashankar Na

(This is a continuation of the discussion on the seeking of scrapping of DPDPA and DPDPA rules by three petitioners in the Supreme Court) On  16th February 2026, the Supreme Court heard the prelimary petitions challenging DPDPA 2023 from the … Continue reading →

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DPDPA at the doors of Supreme Court

Posted on February 16, 2026 by Vijayashankar Na

As expected, the law of DPDPA is now before the Supreme Court. Normally Courts are expected to step in when a citizen has an adverse impact of the law. and seeks remedy. However, in India, almost every law that gets … Continue reading →

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Rules on Synthetic AI content finalized

Posted on February 14, 2026 by Vijayashankar Na

In October 2025, Meity had released a draft notification related to amendment of ITAct Intermediary Rules related to publication of synthetic content. On 10th February 2026, the final rules have been notified with several clarifications related to the provisions. The … Continue reading →

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The Race for being a Consent Manager

Posted on February 13, 2026 by Vijayashankar Na

Going  by the news paper reports it appears that many Indian companies including giants like TCS are eyeing registration as “Consent Manager” under DPDPA  2023. There is news that JIO and Airtel are also interested in being registered as “Consent … Continue reading →

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Neuro Rights adopted in Canada’s PIPEDA

Posted on February 12, 2026 by Vijayashankar Na

Naavi.org had started a discussion on Neuro Rights during the Indian Data Protection Summit 2022 ( IDPS 2022) where Professor Raael Yuste, a professor and Neuro Scientist from Columbia University had presented his views through a virtual talk.  (Other articles … Continue reading →

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