Author Archives: Vijayashankar Na

“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 →

In the last two articles, we discussed how a Compliance oriented organization in India may react to the passing of the DPDPA with the following steps. Step 1: Conduct a Board Meeting in which the advent of the new law … Continue reading →

In the earlier article we discussed the need for the Board of a company to immediately pass a resolution taking into notice the passage of DPDPA 2023 and initiating further action. It would be most natural for most companies to … Continue reading →

Now that DPDPA 2023 has been gazetted with the Presidential Assent professionals in the industry are wondering what they should do now? Should they expect that the Government will now sleep over it and the date of applicability may not … Continue reading →

India has just now passed DPDPA 2023. While there is an expectation in the air about organizations becoming more responsible in handling personal information, I came across a request for permission for installation of SonyLiv app on an Android mobile. … Continue reading →

We the data protection professionals were already feeling that we were on the moon when DPDPA was passed into an act Now we are elated that India has joined the select band of countries which have soft landed on the … Continue reading →