Your personal information is highly important. Most areas of life require you to be able to show who you are, from applying for a home loan to obtaining a passport. Stolen identities can jeopardise daily activities and harm your reputation, both personally and professionally. As a result, it’s important to safeguard your personal information online. […]
While the Supreme Court of India takes its time to decide if privacy should be a fundamental right conferred upon Indian citizens, it may be useful to understand the different cyber crimes that lurk in the digital world, a space that isn’t always defined by clear boundaries. In the first part of our three part interview with […]
Be it photo number, location, photos, most often, we share our personal data on social media platforms without giving it a real thought. And there are times when this data gets shared on social media platforms without our permission. Our personal data goes into wrong hands and gets leaked out in the open as revenge […]
“How does privacy matter? Nobody is reading my messages and I am making the choice to put these messages out there on social media platform,” asks P, my friend who seems to finally have cracked the Tinder Emojis. Every time I talk about privacy, people ask me what is there to hide? Every time I […]
“Consequently, as new cases brought new issues and problems before the Court, the content of the right to privacy has found elaboration in these diverse contexts. These would include telephone tapping (PUCL), prior restraints on publication of material on a death row convict (Rajagopal), inspection and search of confidential documents involving the banker – customer […]
Digital campaign with its strong emphasis on the digitization of public records has seen a companion in Aadhar. From basic amenities like getting ration, getting medical services or opening a bank account, Aadhar is being made as a mandatory requirement. There is a move to link Aadhar with the health data of an individual in […]
When the news emerged on January 29, 2020, that the Union Cabinet approved the latest set of amendments to the Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act, 1971 (MTP Act 1970), many hailed it as a progressive stand on abortion laws for these modern times, as the medical technologies have been far advancing and gender equity been […]
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