Author Archives: Vijayashankar Na

Justice (Retd) Sri K.S. Puttaswamy, the person who initiated the Supreme Court petition on Privacy which finally ended up with the judgement on August 27, 2017 that Privacy is a Fundamental Right in India, is today 98 years old and … Continue reading →

It has become a practice for organizations to send marketing e-mails with “Donot Reply” address. Today I came across the following email from Newsletter@indianexpressonline.org but the reply set to a non existent email address of emailers@indianexpressonline.org. Obviously the “Reply to” … Continue reading →

FDPPI had introduced an implementation and Certifiable audit framework for Data Privacy in the name of PDPCSI (Personal Data Protection Compliance Standard of India). This framework created by Naavi was meant to assist the organizations towards compliance of the data … Continue reading →

On September and october 2019, Naavi posted a series of articles on “Data Governance”. At that time a committee had been formed to develop a Data Governance Framework. This was also the time when Naavi embarked on his exploration of … Continue reading →

In the earlier three articles, we covered three steps towards DPDPA compliance namely Let’s now discuss the concept of BIA. We have earlier heard the concept of PIA (Privacy Impact Assessment) and DPIA (Data Protection Impact Assessment). In PIA we … Continue reading →

“Awareness” is a common word used by the industry whenever new developments like the DPDPA happens. We all start conducting more and more “Awareness Training Sessions”. But Awareness is often a surface level understanding and does not get deep into … Continue reading →