Riyan Paul Mathew Abstract The DPDP Act 2023, envisioned to fill the legal lacunae on digital privacy, falls largely short of its statement of objects and reasons. By carving out three tiered exemptions for governmental activity, covering national security and public order, criminal investigation, and statistical research, and removing meaningful timelines for the erasure or […]
Category: Privacy Law
Koushiik Kumar Introduction The expansion of digital legal databases has transformed judicial records into globally accessible repositories. This development, while democratising access, has also raised sharp questions of privacy. In Karthick Theodore v. Registrar General (2024), the Madras High Court directed Indian Kanoon to remove a judgment revealing the petitioner’s name and intimate details, despite […]
Keshav Maheshwari Introduction: A Crisis of Confidence in a Cashless Revolution India’s Unified Payments Interface (UPI) stands as a monumental achievement in public digital infrastructure, a system that has dramatically lowered transaction costs and brought millions into the formal financial fold. However, a recent and unforeseen development threatens the very trust upon which this revolution […]
Kinjal Ahuja and Ashish Rawat “We cannot have a system, or even the appearance of system, where surveillance is secret, or where decisions are made about individuals by a Kafkaesque system of opaque and unreviewable decision-makers” – Reyna and Farley, 2006, p.43 Introduction India’s first dedicated data privacy law, the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, […]
Soujanya Boxy Introduction The accelerating pace of technological advancements raises growing concerns over user autonomy and data privacy, particularly with the increasing power of tech giants to collect and use user data. Tech giants recognise user data as the fuel for their revenue growth. However, in their pursuit of being data monopolies, a critical question […]
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