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Singapore passed some key amendments to the Personal Data Protection Act 2012 establishing a new norm for administrative fines at 10% of turnover. Now companies, with turnover exceeding Singapore dollar 10 million per year,  responsible for data breaches face financial penalties upto 10% of their turnover or Singapore dollars 1 million which ever is higher. …

Another Data Protection law having relevance to Indian Companies is now out. Effective 1st July 2020, the Data Protection Law in Dubai has been revised and brought in line with the current trends. The new DIFC (Dubai International Financial Center) law (no 5 of 2020) replaces the earlier 2007 version. The law tries to replicate …

After FDPPI completed the two certification programs for Data Protection Professionals (CDPP-I),  with a program of 18 hours of online teaching, Cyber Law College of Naavi has completed one more crash course of 12 hours for about 45 participants mainly from the Elite CISO group of Delhi. Presently another batch of around 40 persons from …

FDPPI and Cyber Law College successfully conducted the first batch of Certified Data Protection Professionals course in January 2020 and completed the evaluation and certification program last month. Now Cyber law College is starting a second batch of virtual training commencing from April 4th 2020, details of which are available on the website of FDPPI …

Naavi has just published a book on Personal Data Protection Act of India (PDPA 2020). The book is presently available in E Book format through Amazon.  The amazon link is available here: Link to Amazon The print version is in progress and expected to be available by February 15th. This book has been written taking …

Certificate in Personal Data Protection Act (CPDPA) by Cyber Law College In Association with Foundation of Data Protection Professionals in India (FDPPI)  Introduction This course is meant to introduce the present and upcoming data protection law in India. The course is structured as a 12 session web based course and tentatively covers the following topics. …

In the last few months, I have published many articles related to Data Protection on www.naavi.org. It is time to place it for records in this forum also so that those who are interested in going through these articles may find it convenient. Comments are welcome Naavi 1st November 2019 Public Comments Sought for regulations …

As readers of this site are aware, this site is being maintained by Naavi, founder of www.naavi.org. Many of the views of Naavi are being posted on the website of www.naavi.org. In order to avoid duplication we would request the readers to keep a tab on the articles posted on Naavi.org on the subject of …

Today is 25th May 2019, an year after the GDPR came into effect. During this one year, Indian Companies and the professionals in the Data Protection domain have discussed the impact of GDPR in great detail. When we started the year, GDPR in principle was known for two years but the companies had not taken …

Naavi was the author of the first book on Cyber Laws in India when he released “Cyber Laws For Netizens” on December 9, 2000, the day when Information Technology Bill 1999 was introduced in the Parliament. Now the proposed draft Bill titled “Personal Data Protection Act 2018” had been introduced in the last Parliament on …