Tag: right to privacy
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Privacy: The Laid Jurisprudence and Contemporary Challenges
Living life with dignity, encapsulated in the rights such as privacy, which is for all to enjoy, is the victory of democracy. The article highlights some of the salient features of privacy rights and takes a step back to analyse the status of privacy rights in its current form. On 24 August 2017, a nine…
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Legal Journey of Section 377- A Relentless Battle of Expression and Recognition
By Abhiudaya Verma, Research Associate, Policy The legal fight in Singapore against Section 377A of Singapore Penal Code, which can be called a close counterpart of the Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), is set to go further. On March 30th, 2020 the High Court of Singapore dismissed the plea to declare section…
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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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Homosexuality in the light of the Right to Privacy Judgement
By Shikha Mukesh Meena, National Law University, Jodhpur. “The lamp of history destroys the darkness of ignorance” -The Mahabharata The term ‘homosexuality’ was coined in the late 19th century by a German psychologist, Karoly Maria Benkert. Homosexuality refers to sexual behaviors and desires between males or between females. Homosexuality is a social stigma which is still prevalent…
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Security of the State versus Right to Privacy
By Pragya Dhoundiyal, Law Center-1, Faculty of Law, Delhi University. The government of India recently came up with a draft of the National Encryption Policy which is also in place in many other countries. However, our draft has been compared to the drafts of some of the regressive countries of the Middle East because it appeared to…
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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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Phone Tapping Laws: A Critical Analysis
By Trishala Sanyal, A.K.K. New Law Academy, Pune. Nira Radia, a famous political lobbyist was entrapped in the net of phone tapping by the Indian income tax department between the years 2008 to 2009. Her tapes included conversations with elite businessmen, journalists, politicians and many more famous figures of the society. In 2010 some parts of the…