The Supreme Court’s judgment in K Puttaswamy v Union of India (2017) presents a paradigm shift in the Court’s understanding of fundamental rights under the Constitution. While the right to privacy...
Privacy After Puttaswamy
The significance of Justice J Chelameswar’s concurring judgment in the Puttaswamy case is that it seeks to address the source of the Supreme Court’s power. It seeks to give a working jurisprudential...
The Supreme Court’s privacy judgment has important implications for the right to health, especially the protection of health information. The standards that laws will have to meet to impose...
The Supreme Court’s judgment in the Puttaswamy case has been hailed for the position of law that it espouses: that the Constitution recognises a fundamental right to privacy. But, its legacy will...
The right to privacy, as conceptualised in K Puttaswamy v Union of India , addresses many concerns that feminists have had with this right. Applied logically and robustly, this judgment has the...
The Puttaswamy judgment is a significant development for the future of legal interventions involving sexual minorities. When it comes to the constitutional challenge of Section 377, the judgment’s...
The impact of the privacy judgment on the constitutionality of the so-called beef statutes is examined through the critique of earlier judgments of the apex court, demonstrating how unscientific and...
Technology promises to overcome traditional barriers to financial inclusion, in particular by harnessing insights from consumers’ personal data. However, use of personal data creates new risks for...
The recognition of the individual in K Puttaswamy v Union of India has both normative and policy implications for how we think about and design privacy protections. The emphasis on informed consent...
Artificial intelligence and big data present new challenges to protecting our right to privacy both online and offline. Predictive algorithms and online social networks add complex nuances to the...
