About the writer:
Bala (as he is known) was with TCS from July-1981 thru May-2018. He held several leadership roles during his tenure with TCS. His last role, prior to retirement, was Vice President – Chief Risk & Compliance Officer based out of Mumbai / Bengaluru. Apart from completing BE (1979) & MTech (1981-IITM), over the last decade he has gained sufficient knowledge in law by completing LLB(KSLU-2018), Master of Business Laws (MBL-2013), PGD-Cyber Laws(2014), PGD-
Intellectual Property Laws(2019) (NLSIU), and recently LLM (2020) from University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA, specialising in Technology & Entertainment Laws. He is currently a practicing advocate in Bengaluru with M/S. Sundaraswamy & Ramadas Advocates.
About the articles:
1. Information Privacy in the Digital World: This paper is an informational paper giving a bird’s eye view of the emerging challenges of Information privacy in the current and expanding digital world. It aims to bring about a general awareness to the citizen about the potential pitfalls and challenges of protecting one’s own data/information.
2. Digital Death: “Most of us now live two lives, one in our actual world and the other in the virtual world or the Digital World. When we die, our physical existence might come to an end, but the virtual presence lingers on”. How should one manage the digital footprint post the death of individuals? Paper explores the challenges in managing such an affair of all the digital assets.
