Right To Privacy

WhatsApp's big statement in the Delhi High Court that breaking message encryption would be the end of the platform in India has sparked a debate on the balance between right to privacy and the government's need to ensure national security.

Explaining why law needs to address gender inequality that persists within households, Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud said privacy cannot be a "cloak for infringement of rights".

Marriage does not do away with the procedural rights of a person to divulge his personal information, a Division Bench of the High Court has said.

The Delhi High Court today listed for hearing in February a batch of petitions requesting removal of online content on them by invoking the right to privacy and the right to be forgotten.

WhatsApp will soon allow users to set up an alternate profile on the app or the ability to show some users your default profile, while displaying another one to other users. The Meta-owned messaging platform has also begun testing a new feature that allows testers to seek a video with a double tap gesture on the left and right sides of the screen, ...

The Chhattisgarh High Court has ruled that recording the mobile phone conversation of a person without her knowledge amounts to the violation of the right to privacy under Article 21 and set aside a family court's order.

UNESCO on Thursday published its first guidance on use of Generative AI (GenAI) for education, urging governmental agencies to regulate the use of the technology, including protection of data privacy and putting an age limit for users. GenAI chatbot ChatGPT has become the world's fastest growing app to date, and its emergence has prompted the relea...

The government is expecting to implement the Digital Personal Data Protection law within 10 months, Union IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said on Wednesday. The Bill, which comes after six years of the Supreme Court declaring 'Right to Privacy' as a fundamental right, has provisions to curb the misuse of individuals' data by online platforms.

The Rajya Sabha on Wednesday passed the Digital Personal Data Protection Bill 2023 with a voice vote following a walkout by opposition members over the Manipur issue. The Lok Sabha passed the Bill on Monday.

The Lok Sabha today cleared a new digital rights law that seeks to impose heavy penalty for data breaches, despite privacy concerns raised by the Opposition.

Music streaming giant Spotify was on Tuesday fined $5.4 million (roughly Rs. 40 crore) for not properly informing users on how data it collected on them was being used, Swedish authorities said. The Swedish Authority for Privacy Protection's (IMY) said it had reviewed "how Spotify handles customers' right of access to their personal data." 

Minister of State for Electronics and IT Rajeev Chandrasekhar said on Friday that platforms in the digital space will always be held accountable to their customers by the government. Big Tech has avoided regulation all around the world "because they masqueraded as innovation", according to the MoS IT. The government is currently conducting a nation...

It will not be in public interest for the court to come to the aid of a married man, who indulged in alleged sexual relationships outside the wedlock, on the premise of right to privacy, the Delhi High Court said on Wednesday.

A 68-year-old Spanish TV actress said that her newly adopted daughter was conceived using her dead son's frozen sperm and is in fact her granddaughter, reigniting a debate over the bioethics of surrogacy and children's right to privacy in Spain.

National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) chairperson Justice (Retd) Arun Kumar Mishra on Thursday called for a stringent law to deal with "unlawful Internet behaviour and cyber crimes." He was speaking after the inauguration of the 25th All India Forensic Science Conference at the National Forensic Sciences University in Gandhinagar.

WhatsApp's big statement in the Delhi High Court that breaking message encryption would be the end of the platform in India has sparked a debate on the balance between right to privacy and the government's need to ensure national security.

Explaining why law needs to address gender inequality that persists within households, Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud said privacy cannot be a "cloak for infringement of rights".

Marriage does not do away with the procedural rights of a person to divulge his personal information, a Division Bench of the High Court has said.

The Delhi High Court today listed for hearing in February a batch of petitions requesting removal of online content on them by invoking the right to privacy and the right to be forgotten.

WhatsApp will soon allow users to set up an alternate profile on the app or the ability to show some users your default profile, while displaying another one to other users. The Meta-owned messaging platform has also begun testing a new feature that allows testers to seek a video with a double tap gesture on the left and right sides of the screen, ...

The Chhattisgarh High Court has ruled that recording the mobile phone conversation of a person without her knowledge amounts to the violation of the right to privacy under Article 21 and set aside a family court's order.

UNESCO on Thursday published its first guidance on use of Generative AI (GenAI) for education, urging governmental agencies to regulate the use of the technology, including protection of data privacy and putting an age limit for users. GenAI chatbot ChatGPT has become the world's fastest growing app to date, and its emergence has prompted the relea...

The government is expecting to implement the Digital Personal Data Protection law within 10 months, Union IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said on Wednesday. The Bill, which comes after six years of the Supreme Court declaring 'Right to Privacy' as a fundamental right, has provisions to curb the misuse of individuals' data by online platforms.

The Rajya Sabha on Wednesday passed the Digital Personal Data Protection Bill 2023 with a voice vote following a walkout by opposition members over the Manipur issue. The Lok Sabha passed the Bill on Monday.

The Lok Sabha today cleared a new digital rights law that seeks to impose heavy penalty for data breaches, despite privacy concerns raised by the Opposition.

Music streaming giant Spotify was on Tuesday fined $5.4 million (roughly Rs. 40 crore) for not properly informing users on how data it collected on them was being used, Swedish authorities said. The Swedish Authority for Privacy Protection's (IMY) said it had reviewed "how Spotify handles customers' right of access to their personal data." 

Minister of State for Electronics and IT Rajeev Chandrasekhar said on Friday that platforms in the digital space will always be held accountable to their customers by the government. Big Tech has avoided regulation all around the world "because they masqueraded as innovation", according to the MoS IT. The government is currently conducting a nation...

It will not be in public interest for the court to come to the aid of a married man, who indulged in alleged sexual relationships outside the wedlock, on the premise of right to privacy, the Delhi High Court said on Wednesday.

A 68-year-old Spanish TV actress said that her newly adopted daughter was conceived using her dead son's frozen sperm and is in fact her granddaughter, reigniting a debate over the bioethics of surrogacy and children's right to privacy in Spain.

National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) chairperson Justice (Retd) Arun Kumar Mishra on Thursday called for a stringent law to deal with "unlawful Internet behaviour and cyber crimes." He was speaking after the inauguration of the 25th All India Forensic Science Conference at the National Forensic Sciences University in Gandhinagar.