Data Privacy and Protection

The twentieth century rock icon, Jim Morrison, reportedly once said, “The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are.” Although it was said in another context, Morrison’s quote reinforces the significance of rights that persons have in protecting their individuality, and the traits and characteristics associated with their person. This is where the notion of ‘personality rights’, as we define it in legal parlance, comes in....

Justice(Retd.) KS Puttuswamy challenged the biometric identity scheme Aadhaar, saying it violated the fundamental right to privacy. The constitutional bench set up to see if privacy is, in fact, a constitutional right, established that it is a constitutionally protected right that emerges from right to life and liberty....