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

“Responsible AI” and “Accountable AI”

As the use of AI proliferates, we are often hearing a demand for “Responsible AI”. We are however repeating that the foundation of AI being responsible is in AI being accountable. This accountability means that there should be an organization … Continue reading

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AI Advisory for Intermediaries

The advisory issued by Meity on 1st March 2024 has evoked concerns in the industry about a new Compliance requirement. Though a clarification was issued today by the Minister, there are still doubts about what compliance requirements are suggested by … Continue reading

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AI industry needs to adopt Discipline

After the recent press reports about “Intermediaries” to be required to take permission of Meity for deploying Generative AI solutions in public platforms, there was a spate of knee jerk reactions from the industry. One start up founder reacted … … Continue reading

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Chakshu Portal launched for reporting spam calls

In a welcome move, the Government of India has introduced a new mechanism for reporting Spam Calls . The portal “Chakshu” has been opened as part of the Sanchar Sathi website Chakshu is meant to be used by citizens to … Continue reading

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AI Sand Box required to prevent a new Toolkit of Fake News

India is a fertile ground for misuse of AI through Fake news creation and distribution. It is expected that this would grow multiple times in the next few months and there could be an international tool kit under development to … Continue reading

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Regulatory Sandbox of RBI and DPDPA

Yesterday, RBI also released a document namely “Enabling Framework for Regulatory Sandbox” which inter-alia attracted interest of Data Protection professionals because a reference was made about DPDPA. RBI is a sectoral regulator and how its regulations that may overlap with … Continue reading

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