Catergory

puttaswamy

Delhi Police is Collecting Data from Persons in Delhi Hailing from NE States, Ladakh & Darjeeling. We wrote to the Delhi Police Commissioner Raising Our Concerns.

Delhi Police has reportedly initiated a data collection exercise, through which they have asked Delhi residents from the Northeastern states, Darjeeling and Ladakh to provide their personal information through a Google Form.

14 August, 2023

5 min read

Radhika Roy

puttaswamy

Supreme Court directs WhatsApp to allow users to continue using WhatsApp without accepting its 2021 Privacy Policy

WhatsApp’s 2016 and 2021 privacy policy have been the subject of a long standing court challenge before the Delhi High Court. Today, the petition has been heard after 4 months.

01 February, 2023

5 min read

Tanmay Singh

aadhaar

We wrote to the Tamil Nadu government on mandatory submission of Aadhaar: Voicing our fears of exclusion and privacy violation

We have written to the Finance Secretary of the Tamil Nadu Government highlighting our concerns of exclusion and privacy around the notification mandating linkage of Aadhaar to avail benefits under all State government schemes.

11 January, 2023

4 min read

Tejasi Panjiar

Legal

The Digital Personal Data Protection Bill, 2022 does not satisfy the Supreme Court’s Puttaswamy principles

In this post, we break down how the DPDPB, 2022 fails to meet the standards of privacy that have been laid down by the Supreme Court.

16 December, 2022

10 min read

Tanmay Singh &

Gayatri Malhotra

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