Author Archives: Vijayashankar Na

CIO Prime has featured me as the most influential visionary leaders of the year. Reflecting on the past in the light of this article I recall 1) First book on Cyber Laws in India in 1999 before the law was … Continue reading →

(This is a continuation of the discussion on the seeking of scrapping of DPDPA and DPDPA rules by three petitioners in the Supreme Court) The recent challenge mounted on DPDPA 2023 in the Supreme Court by a few PIL advocates … Continue reading →

The UIDAI has launched a new Aadhaar App which according to the Secretary of MeitY , can be used for age verification under DPDPA. Necessary amendments have been made to SWIK rules or the  Aadhaar authentication for goog governance  (Social … Continue reading →

Whenever an electronic document is to be presented as evidence in a Cour of law, the ITA 2000 expected a certificate to be produced about the reliability of the document for admission purpose. Earlier it was through Section 65B of … Continue reading →

(This is a continuation of the discussion on the seeking of scrapping of DPDPA and DPDPA rules by three petitioners in the Supreme Court) India has witnessed a continued battle on introduction of Privacy laws since 2 decades. Every time … Continue reading →

On 25th May 2016, GDPR became a law. It provided a window of 2 years for implementaion and hence the law became effective from 25th May 2018. We now have the experience of 8 years of implementation and hundreds of … Continue reading →