An Analysis of Puttaswamy: The Supreme Court Privacy Verdict with Reference to Aadhar Card
This paper discusses the Supreme Court’s framing of the fundamental right to privacy in Justice K.S. Puttaswamy (Retd.) v. Union of India (2017) and what that means for the Aadhaar program in the 2018 Aadhaar verdict (Puttaswamy II). The nine-judge court, by its judgment in 2017, held that privacy is vital to life and personal […]
The Constitutional Duty to Forget: Indefinite State Retention of Personal Data After Puttaswamy, NATGRID, and the Personal Data Protection Act, 2023
The acknowledgement of informational privacy by the Supreme Court in Justice K.S. Puttaswamy (Retd.). v. Union of India suggests the positive duty of being able to forget personal information implicitly after the initial purpose of such information is satisfied. However, the Central Identities Data Repository (Aadhaar), CCTNS, NATGRID and the Central Monitoring System will have […]