Tag: Constitutional Law
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Reading the Indian Data Protection Law Against the Architecture Puttaswamy Built Nine Years Ago
Nine years ago, Puttaswamy recognised privacy as a fundamental right. The Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023, was the Indian Parliament’s chance to build the architecture that judgment contemplated. However, the Act falls short when tested against the judgment’s own three-fold test, its institutional expectations, and its dignitarian foundation. NINE YEARS AGO, a Constitutional…
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Of Facebook and Privacy – Part I: The Constitutional and Tortuous Facets
(Image Source: opensource.com, https://flic.kr/p/84VZAr) The following post by Samyak Sibasish is the first in a series of posts analysing the effects of Social Media, specifically Facebook, on Privacy. This post focuses on the constitutional and tortuous dimensions of the issue, while the next one will focus on the contractual aspects of it. Samyak is a 3rd year…