Nearly a year back, a nine judge bench of Supreme Court unanimously affirmed that the “Right to Privacy” is a fundamental right under the Indian Constitution. In this talk, Sushant highlights the challenges of public exposure of such public data-sets and how sensitive people are with respect to the so called public records.
Since many court judgments are related to living people, the public availability impacts them in terms of their marriage, business and job prospects and sometimes just reputation in the society. Some of these impacts may be justified or not but a mere publisher cannot sit in the judgment of these issues. Court approach to these issues have mostly been ad hoc and they ordered case removal or name anonymization in some cases where as refused to entertain other pleas. As public availability of such data increases, we will see more of the right to know conflict with the right to privacy. He also outlines legal and regulatory changes that can be taken up for balancing such conflicts.
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Nearly a year back, a nine judge bench of Supreme Court unanimously affirmed that the “Right to Privacy” is a fundamental right under the Indian Constitution. In this talk, Sushant highlights the challenges of public
exposure of such public data-sets and how sensitive people are with respect to the so called public records.
Since many court judgments are related to living people, the public availability impacts them in terms of their marriage, business and job prospects and sometimes just reputation in the society. Some of these impacts may be justified or not but a mere publisher cannot sit in the judgment of these issues. Court approach to these issues have mostly been ad hoc and they ordered case removal or name anonymization in some cases where as refused to entertain other pleas. As public availability of such data increases, we will see more of the right to know conflict with the right to privacy. He also outlines legal and regulatory changes that can be taken up for balancing such conflicts.
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