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

Guardrails … In the context of AI, A Reflection

While speaking of AI security, we often use the term “Guardrails” as a requirement to be built by the AI developers or Users to ensure that the risk of any harm caused by the AI algorithm could be mitigated. Potential  … Continue reading

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Chat GPT Reviews Naavi’s book on DGPSI-AI

Book Review: Taming the Twin Challenges of DPDPA and AI Overview and Context: Taming the Twin Challenges of DPDPA and AI with DGPSI-AI is the latest work by Vijayashankar Na (Naavi), building on his earlier DPDPA compliance handbooks. Published in … Continue reading

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Review of Book on DGPSI-AI by Perplexity

Overview This comprehensive technical guide addresses one of the most pressing challenges facing organizations today: navigating the complex intersection of India’s Digital Personal Data Protection Act (DPDPA) 2023 and artificial intelligence governance. The book presents the Data Governance and Protection Standards … Continue reading

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New Book: Taming the twin challenges of DPDPA and AI , with DGPSI-AI

Following the theme of this year’s IDPS 2025, Naavi has released an extension to DGPSI framework of DPDPA Compliance as DGPSI-AI, as a framework for Data Fiduciaries deploying  AI. In order to consolidate the thoughts of DGPSI-AI as  a book, … Continue reading

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Risk Management for DPDPA Compliance and Duty of a Data Processor

Abstract: This note tries to discuss why Privacy by design fails and compliance by design  is a better option to pursue, and why duties of a data processor needs to be recognized and what could be a suggested  “responsible Data … Continue reading

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Let DGPSI-AI guide the RBI and REs for FREE AI implementation

…Continued from the Previous post The  Bhattacharyya committee report on FREE AI has a confusing name. First of all it is not a “Free” AI software as it may first imply. It is a framework for Responsible  and Ethical Enablement … Continue reading

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