This post discusses the approach in the Lok Sabha from regulating commercial surrogacy to criminalizing it and how such transition is in conflict with the guaranteed rights.
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Privacy Hearings III: Recalibrating Rights for Digital Technologies (Guest Post by Ujwala Uppaluri)
This is the third post by Ujwala Uppaluri in the series on the ‘right to privacy’ hearings in the Supreme Court. You can read parts I & II here and here This case offers the …
Continue readingStray thoughts on the Privacy hearings
The privacy hearings before a 9-judge bench (excellently covered by Ujwala Uppaluri on this blog) have excited much attention. Some thoughts on these hearings below: On the adjudicative form: This is how adjudication, especially in …
Continue readingThe Privacy Hearings: Some Notes on Supreme Court Practice (Guest post by Ujwala Uppaluri)
(This is the first post of a 3-part series by Ujwala Uppaluri on the ‘right to privacy’ hearings before the Supreme Court of India. Ujwala is a graduate of NUJS Kolkata and Harvard Law School. …
Continue readingNew Internet Rules: contours of the debate
By Arushi Garg Various concerns have been raised after rules relating to the internet were notified on 11th April 2011. Objections have been raised on mainly three fronts: one, that an unreasonable standard has been …
Continue readingConsilience 2011
The Law and Technology Committee (elTek) of the National Law School of India University, Bangalore is hosting ‘Consilience’, a conference where contemporary issues of critical relevance in the field of law and technology are addressed. …
Continue readingThe “Spirit” of Privacy
The contours of privacy law in India are, as yet, uncertain. In the wake of attacks against the Unique Identification Data (UID) project, the government is moving ahead with plans to legislate in this area. …
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