Author Archives: Vijayashankar Na

The Undersigned has been highlighting that “Bit Coins” and all “Private Crypto Currencies” are “Digital Black Money” and have no place in India. Unfortunately the Finance Ministry since the days of late Mr Arun Jaitely to the current day of … Continue reading →

Amongst all AI Governance systems, one principle which stands out is the principle of “Accountability”. In the context of “Data Fiduciaries” under DPDPA being responsible under law for compliance, “Accountability” under DPDPA mandates that the autonomous AI systems are “Accountable” … Continue reading →

The word AI is often loosely used in the industry to represent any system with a reasonable level of automation. Marketing people often use AI as a prefix to all Software. However, for our assessment of AI Risk under DGPSI-AI … Continue reading →

Consequent to the Indo-US Tariff war where Trump has imposed discriminatory tariff on India, it is expected that India may respond with counter measures. One counter measure which is likely to come is through the adoption of DPDPA 2023 quickly … Continue reading →

NeGD had invited a Coding competition for building a Consent Management System platform as an open source system some time in June 2025. Around 46 entities had applied to participate in the challenge and out of them Six entities have … Continue reading →

In January 2025, Government of India through NeGD has introduced an initiative of an “Entity Locker” to enable storing and sharing of corporate documents on the lines similar to Digilocker. More details are available here: Entity Locker is a secure, cloud-based … Continue reading →