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

Is “Impersonation” a Privacy Issue?

The Right to Privacy as guaranteed by the Constitution and which is sought to be indirectly protected through DPDPA 2023 is a “Right of Choice” of an individual on how his personal information can be collected and used by another … Continue reading

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How is AI Privacy handled under DGPSI?

DGPSI is the Digital Governance and Protection Standard of India (DGPSI) which is meant to be a guidance for compliance of DPDPA 2023 along with ITA 2000 and BIS draft standard on Data Governance. It is therefore natural to reflect … Continue reading

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How Does DPDPA Consent rule apply to CIBIL?

Today’s Economic Times carries an article “Banking Access at Risk if you seek to delete Credit Data” is an argument for exempting Credit Information Companies from the rigours of the Data Protection Act. Naavi.org has been in the forefront of … Continue reading

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The Challenge of WebDTS compliance

In the last one week, Naavi has been looking at the WebDTS prospects of some of the websites and it has revealed some challenges that throws light on the overall DPDPA 2023 compliance. Many of the WebDTS Certification requests have … Continue reading

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E Mail handling as a Personal Data Process: Does DPDPA apply?

Every organization handles Corporate E Mail process. Just as having a website is one of the Digitization steps taken by all companies, having a corporate e-mail system is another early step in the process of digitization of business. I would … Continue reading

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lookalikes would be added to WebDTS

As followers of Naavi are aware, Naavi had introduced a service lookalikes.in based on his patent application around 2002. The objective of the service was to provide a third party disclaimer on the presence of confusingly similar domain names. For … Continue reading

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