The right to privacy, and the debate over it, has never been more relevant. The Delhi High Court’s ruling over WhatsApp’s change in policy, the State’s deliberate push towards Aadhar-linked schemes, the imposition and subsequent overturning of prohibition in Bihar, and a host of legislative and policy changes have pushed privacy legislation into the limelight. This right, first enunciated by Warren and Bandeis in the Harvard Law Review in 1890, has been examined by the Supreme Court of India time and again. In the landmark judgment of Kharak Singh v State of UP, the Supreme Court held that the words “protection of life and personal liberty” […]
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