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

Stop Whining…. “Innovation” is being Compliant to DPDPA and not the battering ram against it.

With the closure of public comments on DPDPA Rules on 5th march 2025, many organizations and industry associations have already lodged their objections to different aspects of the rules. Most of them are only considering their vested interests and are … Continue reading

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Sapthapadi of DPDPA Compliance

With the comments on DPDPA rules behind us, organizations now have to start working on how to proceed on the road to compliance. DGPSI the Crown Jewel of Frameworks for DPDPA Compliance adopts a milestone approach with seven distinctive milestones … Continue reading

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Public Consultation on DPDPA Rules Closes today

The extended time line for submission of public comments on DPDPA Rules 2025 ends today. Naavi/FDPPI has already submitted its response, copy of which is available here. Subsequent to the submission of our recommendations, a few more additional requirements have … Continue reading

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Angel One Data Breach Notification: AWS fails to identify exfiltration of data

On 27th February, Angel one became aware of a data breach which it seems to have reported through email to its customers reported a personal data breach and has issued a notification to the data principals probably on March 2. … Continue reading

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DH Bengaluru Summit 2040 : Panel Discussion on Cyber Crimes

I had the privilege of participating in the summit Bengaluru 2040 organized by Deccan herald recently . The video of the discussion on Cyber Crimes is available here. Naavi

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Relevance of Consumer Protection Act 2019 for Privacy

When DPDPA 2023 was enacted, the focus of legislation was “Digital personal Data” and the way the industry is expected to collect and process. The law was drafted as a “Principle based draft and did not find it necessary to … Continue reading

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