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| Hon'ble Justice Shri R Subramanian inaugurating the workshop |
Digital Security Association of
India (DiSAI), one of the initiatives of this ezine PreSense organised
a one-day Workshop on “Securing the Digital India”. Hon’ble Justice Mr. R. Subramanian, Judge, Madras High Court, inaugurated
the workshop. In his address, he highlighted the ramification of individual
privacy in India. Quoting the landmark
judgement of the apex court declaring privacy as a fundamental right, he said
it had been reiterated several times that freedom of expression was always
subject to reasonable restrictions. He
added that the freedom of expression of any individual should not cause
invasion into another’s privacy.
Dr P.V. Kumaraguru, Deputy Director
of the Guru Nanak College, Chennai, in his keynote address, elaborated on the
techno-legal issues involved in digital security and detailed the subjects
associated with it, viz. artificial intelligence and big data analysis.
Experts in the field of digital security,
such as cyber law, cyber security, network technology, social networking sites
and cyber-crime investigation, shared their knowledge during the various
sessions in the day. The well-known cyber law expert, Shri Naa Vijayashankar
discussed the draft of the Personal Data Protection Bill that had been
submitted by the Sri Krishna Commission to the Central Government the previous
day.
In the panel discussion that
followed, the panellists, Mr Badri Seshadri and Mr Logesh Babu discussed the
Data Privacy related issues in India as compared to those of the western world
like General Data Protection Regulations in UK. In the post-lunch session,
there was a panel discussion on ‘Cyber Crimes: a 360-Degree Overview’. Additional Superintendent of Police, Ms. Lavanya
spoke about the current status of cyber-crimes in the state while senior cyber
law advocate, Mr Karthikeyan spoke about the various provisions of the
Information Technology Act and other related legal provisions. Shri
Karruppuswamy from Jesuit Technologies presented the network related
issues.
There were two short informative
sessions on ‘Digital Evidences’ and ‘Nuances of a Mobile Phone’. In the valedictory session, Dr R Nataraj,
IPS, Director-General of Police (Retired) and sitting Member of the State
Legislative Assembly, shared his experiences with cyber-crime cases and added
that the future was going to be completely digital, and hence, every digital
user should be made aware about digital security for his own security.
The event photos can be downloaded from the link
http://www.tinyurl.com/disai280718
