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Privacy

Privacy & the Public

Undoubtedly, the RTI Act in its original form was one of the most liberal pieces of legislation aimed at enhancing transparency and democratic values. As such, in order to fulfil their perceived role effectively, the CIC and the ICs had been given a status which would enable them to have the power to review the functioning of the government's public information officials and give suitable directions to serve public interest as understood by the rule of thumb definition.

Privacy in the digital age

This nine-judge Bench for the first time engaged in an intense debate with legal scholars and prominent lawyers on whether or not privacy is a fundamental right in the Constitution.