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

Naavi unveils Naavi-63 as a Consent Recording System under DPDPA

During the Crash course on DPDPA 2023 implementation held in Mumbai and Ahmedabad on March 9th and 10th to groups of CIOs, Naavi announced that as part of the consultancy services offered under the DGPSI framework, a “Consent Recording System” … Continue reading

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FDPPI- The Privacy Companion of India

Most companies in India have realized that the month March 2024 will soon be over and a new financial year 2024-25 will be before us. While the politics of the country is keenly following the Lokasabha elections of 2024 and … Continue reading

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New Indian Evidence Act and the new Section 65B Certification

With the notification of the Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam 2023 as the new Indian Evidence Act (NIEA), time has come to take a fresh look at Section 65B Certification and the operations of Cyber Evidence Archival Center (CEAC) of which Naavi … Continue reading

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“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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