Key Highlights of Justice Chandrachud’s Judgment in the Right to Privacy Case: The nine-judge bench of the Supreme Court has unanimously delivered its judgment in Justice K.S. Puttaswamy (Retd.) v. Union of India holding that privacy is a constitutionally protected right which not only emerges from the guarantee of life and personal liberty in Article 21 of…
How To Guard against Mobile, Online Fraud: Fraudsters using mobile phone or the Internet to trick unsuspecting users has become so frequent in India that the police, often, turns a deaf ear. Such frauds have become so commonplace that a single cyber police station in Mumbai may have to register 10 to 12 FIRs (first…
Privacy is a natural right“: We need a meaningful national dialogue on what personal privacy ought to mean in the Indian context before we move on to the right to privacy” reads the headline of Raju Rajagopal’s op-ed in Mint published on 16 August 2017. As a young advocate working on the privacy case, I have some…
Blocking Websites: An Open and Shut Case?: Today in India, we are beginning to see diverse trends in cyberspace. One of the favourite ones is the repeated blocking of websites. And the latest to be blocked is the Internet Archive — www.archive.org – which was not accessible and even if accessed, displayed this message: “The website has been blocked…
Why cases go unreported: Outdated laws and tedious search for justice: The last time Ankur (name changed) was on Facebook was in 2013. It’s been four years since the incident, “when a few batchmates hacked my account and sent porn links and dirty messages to some girls from my class, who then complained against me”. Since then,…
Advocacy Group in India Dances for Visibility and Equal Rights: For the last 14 years, Dancing Queens – a dance troupe made up of transgender and other LGBTQ people – has created magic on stage through dance and drama to advocate for queer rights and visibility. We now have 25 dancers, after initially starting off…
Allahabad University website hacked on Independence Day: The official website of the Allahabad University was hacked purportedly by Pakistan-based hackers who posted anti-national message with a clip of a burning tricolour on it. The matter came to light at around 1.30 am on Tuesday after which the officials shut down the site to take back…
Towards A Digital Growth Story: Shikha Sharma In India’s BQ: India is going through a digital transformation and rapidly evolving into a digital behemoth. Being a digitally native country, it is best placed to maximise the benefits from this transformational change and charter a path of inclusive growth. The emergence of India Stack on the…
Right to privacy crucial element of consumer rights in Digital India; here is why it is not absolute: I have written, spoken extensively about, and legally fought for a framework of legal rights for consumers and citizens—a critical issue as technology transforms and disrupts our lives, business and relationship between citizen and the government. I…
Realities remain in Digital India: My exposure to Digital India was till recently a mix of government hype and the data my team routinely put together to share with our international partners. My first-hand interface began quite innocuously when the government asked us to link our Aadhaar and PAN cards and made this a requirement…