By Aayushi Swaroop Introduction In Neha v. Vibhor Garg, a divorce petition was filed pursuant to which the husband produced the telephonic conversation of the wife to establish the case of cruelty by the wife. To this, the High Court stated that the same is an infringement of the right to privacy of the wife … Continue reading RECONSIDERING THE CASE OF NEHA V. VIBHOR GARG
By Ayushi Mishra & Gunjan Mehta Introduction The past decade has seen an unprecedented growth of information technology, computational power, and cellular network. This growth has to be contextualized and seen from the spectrum of an increased collection in the generation and dissemination of data, to the extent that experts have termed data as … Continue reading A deal violating Privacy Rights in the COVID veil
By Riya Karkera What is one’s biggest fear when sending a sexually explicit image of oneself to another? Is it that in the wrong hands, these images could be sent out widely, and could be used to harass, humiliate and extort oneself? Well, what if one was told that this is not the worst outcome … Continue reading Our laws for Sexting: Round pegs in a square hole?
By Livie Jain How feasible is it to protect the rights of owners by legally recognising the theft of information? In the recent annual report on Cyber Safety Insights, the country director of NortonLifeLock, Ritesh Chopra has flagged concerns regarding increasing instances of data theft and the complacent attitude of people when it comes to … Continue reading Barriers to Recognition of Information Theft
Aman Garg On January 29, the Gujarat High Court, in a strongly worded verdict, declared the ‘two-finger test’ to be violative of woman’s right to privacy and dignity and held the same to be unconstitutional. The Hon’ble Court noted that the said practice was in direct conflict with different constitutional and statutory provisions and directed … Continue reading Two-finger Test: Transgression into Dignity, Privacy, and more…
By Samarth Sansar “The right to privacy is protected as an intrinsic part of the right to life and personal liberty under Article 21 and as a part of the freedoms guaranteed by Part III of the Constitution.”[1] A 9- judge bench of the Supreme Court in Justice K. S. Puttaswamy (Retd.) and Anr. vs Union Of India … Continue reading Privacy Judgement: Impact on Law of Searches
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