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Monthly Review: August 2023
In August, amid constitutional benches and regular hearings, the SC continued to push major institutional reforms.
27th Sep 2023
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Restricted Information: Six significant judgements from the last decade
Backdoor legislative tweaks, sluggish e-portals, mixed messaging from courts—India’s once-vaunted RTI framework is losing its bite.
5th Sep 2023
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Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023: A missed opportunity for horizontal equality
The Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 wasted an opportunity to bolster the right to privacy for marginalised and vulnerable groups.
23rd Aug 2023
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Digital Data Protection Act 2023: Five Must Reads
SCO curates five pieces that cast a critical eye on the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023
21st Aug 2023
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The Need for a law on Data Protection
Apar Gupta argues that India should draft its own data protection legislation, learning from Europe's new data regime.
26th Mar 2018
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Whatsapp-Facebook Privacy
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Karmanya Singh Sareen v Union of India
The Supreme Court is hearing a challenge to WhatsApps privacy policy for violating the right to privacy. The policy permits WhatsApp to share data with Facebook and all its group companies for the purposes of commercial advertising and marketing.
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Last Updated: 20170607
Bench:K.M. Joseph J, Ajay Rastogi J, Aniruddha Bose J, Hrishikesh Roy J, C.T. Ravikumar J