SECURE YOUR DATA: The internet can be a great ally or a formidable foe — it all depends on how adept you are at protecting your information. A cybersecurity expert offers guidance. We live in a world where every move we make on our digital devices — what we watch, read and like — leaves a…
Work with Google, Facebook to block explicit videos on internet: SC to Govt: With a view to ensure that explicit videos depicting rape, gang rape (RGR) and child pornography (CP) are not available for circulation on the internet, the Supreme Court has asked the Government of India to work with companies like Google, Yahoo, Facebook…
Take help of Facebook, Google to block porn: SC: In a bid to block porn sites on the Internet, the Supreme Court directed the government and the Information Ttechnology department to take the help of Google and Facebook to block objectionable sites that strea, child pornography. The Apex Court has suggested that the government should…
This new website will solve all your online privacy issues: A Delhi-based organization, SFLC.in(Software Freedom Law Centre), has launched a new website — ‘Privacy Bytes’, to provide policymakers, academics, media persons and the public at large with resources on online privacy-related issues, matters and cases in India. Read More
Indian consumers comfortable in sharing personal data online: report: Brands need to be more responsible with data as Indian consumers are far more trusting than those in other countries when it comes to sharing their personal data online if it improves their user experience, according to a study by consulting firm Kantar TNS. Read More
The Privacy Battle Over the World’s Largest Biometric Database: In 2009, with little attention from abroad, the government of India launched a new identification program that has gone on to become the largest biometric database in the world. The program, known as Aadhaar, has collected the names, addresses, phone numbers—and perhaps more significantly, fingerprints, photographs,…
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…
In India’s Right to Privacy, a Glimpse of a Right to be Forgotten: The landmark right to privacy judgment delivered by the Supreme Court in Justice Puttaswamy v. Union of India is significant for a lesser known holding – the right to be forgotten. The concurring opinion delivered by Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul affirmed the ratio of the case, namely that right…
Privacy is a fundamental right, it is intrinsic to right to life: Supreme Court: The Supreme Court (SC) on Thursday ruled that privacy is a fundamental right because it is intrinsic to the right to life. The SC also said the right to privacy is intrinsic to the entire fundamental rights chapter of the Constitution. That means, privacy is…
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…