Right to Privacy
13 articles tagged with "Right to Privacy".
The DPDP Act's Quiet Revolution: Why the Removal of Difficulties Order 2026 Marks the End of Data Protection's Honeymoon Phase
When the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology notified the Digital Personal Data Protection (Removal of Difficulties) Order on 5 October 2026, the legal community's initial reaction was characteristically muted. No dramatic constitution...
Stop Using the Consumer Forum as a Dumping Ground for Statutory Torts: Karnataka HC Lays Down the Law on HIV Confidentiality
The Hook: The CPA is Not a Magic Wand for Every Legal Wrong There is a lazy, yet incredibly common, trend among Indian litigators: if a client has suffered a wrong—any wrong—just draft a complaint, slap the label of "deficiency in service" on it, and...
Stop Weaponizing Consumer Forums: Why the Karnataka HC Rightly Ruled that an HIV Privacy Breach is Not a "Deficiency in Service"
The Hook: The Lazy Habit of "Shoehorning" into Consumer Courts There is a pervasive, lazy habit among Indian litigators: when faced with a complex civil wrong, a breach of privacy, or a statutory violation, we try to dress it up as a "deficiency in s...
The DPDP Act Gets Its First Real Teeth: Supreme Court Mandates 'Meaningful Consent' in APAAR Alongside a Wave of Part III Expansions
The Dawn of DPDP Jurisprudence: APAAR Scheme Checked For technology, education, and privacy lawyers, the wait for actionable jurisprudence on the Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Act, 2023 is officially over. On July 28, 2026, the Supreme Cour...
The End of Forced Phone Unlocks? Supreme Court Reclaims Article 20(3) in NDPS Investigations
The Constitutional Renaissance of 2026: Digital Privacy and State Accountability For every criminal defense practitioner in India, the script is exhaustively familiar. An accused is detained under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS)...
The Death of the Article 12 Shield: Supreme Court Ushers in the Era of Horizontal Fundamental Rights
A Seismic Shift in Constitutional Litigation Forget what you learned in law school about Part III of the Constitution acting merely as a shield against the State. The Supreme Court’s constitutional jurisprudence in the first half of 2026 has fundamen...
The End of Digital Fishing Expeditions: Supreme Court Shields Mobile Phones from Article 20(3) Overreach
The State's Sense of Entitlement is Finally Facing Judicial Friction If you practice criminal law in India, you are intimately familiar with the investigative agency’s favorite trump card: "The accused is not cooperating with the investigation." In t...
The End of Digital Fishing Expeditions: Supreme Court Shields Mobile Phones from Anticipatory Bail Conditions under Article 20(3)
The Daily Digest: Digital Constitutionalism Takes Center Stage For any criminal defense lawyer practicing in India today, the script is exhaustingly familiar. A client walks into your chamber seeking anticipatory bail. The Investigating Officer (IO) ...
Compelled Digital Surrender and Vaccine Torts: The Supreme Court’s 2026 Overhaul of Articles 20(3) and 21
For Indian legal practitioners, the Supreme Court’s 2026 constitutional docket is delivering a masterclass in checking executive overreach. While the Union has increasingly relied on the "separation of powers" doctrine to insulate its policy decision...
The Article 21 Avalanche: How the Supreme Court’s 2026 Rulings are Rewriting Writ Practice and State Liability
The Erasure of Part IV: Article 21 Becomes the Ultimate Policy Tool Let us be blunt: the line between Part III (Fundamental Rights) and Part IV (Directive Principles of State Policy) of the Constitution has not just been blurred in 2026; the Supreme ...
The End of the "Unlock Your Phone" Ultimatum: Supreme Court Draws a Hard Line on Article 20(3)
Digital Privacy Meets Criminal Procedure: Why the SC’s April Ruling Changes the Game for Defense Counsel Every criminal practitioner in India knows the drill. Your client receives a notice to join an investigation. They walk into the police station, ...
The End of "Password Coercion" and the FIR Carousel: How the Supreme Court is Redrawing Criminal Practice in 2026
For criminal and constitutional litigators navigating the procedural shifts of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS), the first half of 2026 has delivered a much-needed constitutional anchor. The Supreme Court has aggressively policed the bou...
India Notifies Data Protection Rules: Privacy Tests and Constitutional Stakes
MeitY has notified new data protection rules. This analysis explains their constitutional significance under the right to privacy, reviews likely legal challenges, and outlines reforms to align the rules with Puttaswamy’s proportionality test.
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