SC Defers Hearing Of Challenge Against MHA's 'Snooping' Order Authorizing Central Agencies To Monitor Online Data

The Supreme Court on Tuesday deferred hearing on a string of PILs challenging the Ministry of Home Affairs' notification of December 20 last year authorizing ten Security and Intelligence agencies to intercept, monitor and decrypt "any information generated, transmitted, received or stored in any computer."The petitions, filed by inter alia advocate M.L. Sharma, Internet Freedom Federation...

Foreign Company Has Source Code of Aadhaar Project; It Has Access To Citizens' Information : Certain Worrying Findings By Justice Chandrachud

The impact of Facebook-Camridge Analytica incident also reverberated in the judgment as Justice Chandrachud acknowledged that profiling of individual preferences could also be used to influence the decision making of the electorate in choosing candidates for electoral offices.Though the majority of Supreme Court Constitution Bench has upheld the validity of Aadhaar project, certain findings...

SC's Privacy Judgment Casts Its Shadow Over WhatsApp's Data Sharing Policy Case [Read Order]

The WhatsApp Case, being heard by the five-Judge Constitution bench of the Supreme Court, took an interesting turn today, with the Court and the counsel examining the impact of the recent landmark privacy judgment of the Court on the proceedings.At the outset, Madhavi Divan, counsel for the appellant, referred to the paragraphs in the privacy judgment, which have relevance in the...