These comments were originally published on the Centre for Internet & Society’s Internet Governance blog. The Centre for Internet & Society (CIS) has commented on the Consultation Paper on Privacy, Security and Ownership of Data in Telecom Sector published by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India on August 9, 2017. The submission is divided in […]
Category: Privacy
The Fundamental Right to Privacy: an analysis
This series of articles was originally published on the Centre for Internet and Society’s Internet Governance blog. Last month’s judgment by the nine judge referral bench was an emphatic endorsement of the the constitutional right to privacy. In the course of a 547 page judgment, the bench affirmed the fundamental nature of the right to […]
Rethinking national privacy principles: Evaluating principles for India’s proposed data protection law
This report was edited by Elonnai Hickok and Vipul Kharbanda, and originally published on the Centre for Internet & Society’s Internet Governance blog. This analysis intends to build on the substantial work done in the formulation of the National Privacy Principles by the Committee of Experts led by Justice AP Shah.1 This brief, hopes to […]
Supreme Court sidesteps privacy definition trap, but eloquently explains why we still need it
This article was originally published on The Wire. While the judgement does not strictly defines the right to privacy or catalogue all of its parts, it has attempted to address the broad arguments that are used in justification of and in opposition to privacy. The judgment by the nine-judge bench of the Supreme Court was […]
Not just Aadhaar, privacy verdict affects other issues too
The article was originally published on The Quint. On 24 August, a nine-judge bench of the Supreme Court unanimously held that a fundamental right to privacy exists under Article 21 and Part III of the Constitution of India. The ruling by the constitutional bench was with respect to a reference order made by a two […]
Infographic – The arguments in the Puttaswamy case
This article was originally published in The Wire. The infographic is designed by Pooja Saxena and the content is provided by me. Over the last month, a nine-judge constitutional bench of the Supreme Court has heard arguments on the existence of a fundamental right to privacy in India. Media coverage of judicial hearings in the […]
Should an inability to precisely define privacy render it untenable as a right?
This article was originally published on The Wire. The judges may still be able to articulate the manner in which limits for a right to privacy may be arrived at, without explicitly specifying them. Ludwig Wittgenstein wrote in his book, Philosophical Investigations, that things which we expect to be connected by one essential common feature, […]
