Tag: privacy
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Facebook-Cambridge Analytica Episode: Business without Boundaries
By Kunika Kanodia, Delhi Metropolitan Education, GGSIPU, Delhi. We are living in a world where there seems to be a humongous lacuna in knowledge, with relation to the use and misuse of our data, in other words, how data is made accessible and how that same data is (mis)appropriated. The lack of consumer awareness on this…
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Domestic Surveillance and Right to Privacy
By Anshika Juneja, Symbiosis Law College, Pune. Domestic Surveillance is the close observation of someone, often in order to catch them in wrongdoings. As defined by the government authorities, it is, “information that meets the stated or understood needs of policy makers and been collected, processed and narrowed to meet those ends which hold value to protect…
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In need of Privacy Laws in case of State Surveillance?
By Amrita Dasgupta, South Calcutta Law College. The historic landmarks, the 2008 Mumbai terror attack and 9/11 attack, induced the governments of both the countries, India and America, to implement the state surveillance programmes. They brought with them the perks of interception of emails, text and multimedia messages, video calls, phone calls, fax messages, website visits, vehicle…