Right To Privacy

Fear your personal contact details have been leaked online? Google’s new tool will help to get them removed

Google's new ‘Results About You’ feature may be a small but important tool in controlling your personal information should it ever gets leaked online. This will be a very important tool to fight doxing.

Right to be forgotten: What is it? How has the SC expanded it?

The right to be forgotten allows a person to seek deletion of private information from the internet. It has been acknowledged by the Supreme Court in its 2017 landmark judgment as a facet of the right to privacy. The Centre has told the Delhi High Court the right to be forgotten is ‘evolving’

Centre defends IT rule requiring WhatsApp to trace originator of message in Delhi HC

The Centre said the law empowers it to expect such platforms to create a safe cyberspace and counter illegal content either themselves or by assisting the law enforcement agencies

Bigg Boss winner Ashutosh Kaushik seeks Delhi HC approval for removal of his online videos, pictures under 'right to be forgotten'

The court asked the I&B ministry, Google LLC, Press Council of India and Electronic Media Monitoring Centre to file their replies within four weeks and listed the matter for further hearing in December.

TM Krishna moves Madras HC against Centre's new IT rules; terms them 'vague', 'unreasonable'

In his petition, Krishna says that these regulations will result in "over-censorship and snuffing out dissenting and contrarian voices under pressured wielded by majoritarian groups."

IT Rules 2021 explained: Non-compliance will expose WhatsApp, Facebook, Twitter to significant liability

It is unlikely that the intermediaries will be banned from operating in India for non-compliance. However, it may render their operations non-viable as they may be required to proactively monitor their platforms so as to avoid incurring liability

Mahua Moitra claims to be 'under surveillance', asks Delhi Police chief to remove officers stationed outside her home

In a letter to Delhi Police Commissioner SN Shrivastava, the Trinamool Congress MP said that right to privacy is a fundamental right guaranteed to her as a citizen of this country, under the Constitution of India

WhatsApp row: How messaging app's new privacy policy impacts legal rights of Indian citizens

With the data collected from WhatsApp, Facebook Inc may establish a monopoly in digital marketing leading to justified concerns from anti-trust activists

As Maharashtra govt pushes for stricter rape law, a look at constitutionality and legality of Shakti Bill

Besides proposing death penalty for certain offences against women and children, Shakti Bill also reduces timeline for investigation, trial and appeals without taking into account severe manpower shortage in the police department and the courts in Maharashtra

Parliamentary panel examining Personal Data Protection Bill recommends 89 changes, says Meenakshi Lekhi

The bill was drafted following a Supreme Court judgment in August 2017 that declared 'Right to Privacy' a fundamental right