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Justice K.S Puttaswamy, a dedicated champion of Privacy Rights in India, passes away

Late Justice K.S. Puttaswamy played a crucial role in the recognition of the Right to Privacy as a fundamental right.

ECJ fingerprints for ID cards false id cards

Obligation to insert fingerprints into the storage medium of ID cards is compatible with objectives of combatting the production of false ID cards: ECJ

The ECJ stated that obligation to insert fingerprints into the storage medium of identity cards constitutes a limitation of the fundamental right to privacy and protection of personal data, which are guaranteed by the ECHR.

Experts Corner Siddharth R Gupta

75 Landmark Constitutional Law Judgments in 2023 by the Supreme Court of India [Part II of III]

by Siddharth R. Gupta*
Cite as: 2024 SCC OnLine Blog Exp 10

Case Briefs High Courts

Opening/retaining history sheets, which interferes with right to privacy, should be done adhering to parameters inbuilt in the Police Rules: J&K and Ladakh HC

If an officer, mechanically, under the guise of prevention of crime and to protect others, opens or extends history sheets, it impacts the right to privacy of not only the individual against whom the order is passed, but also causes harm to other person’s rights.

legal recognition same sex relationships

Case Briefs Foreign Courts

Govt’s failure to realise its positive obligation to set-up alternate framework to recognise same-sex relationship violates Hong Kong Bill of Rights

The Court with a majority of 3:2 issued a declaration acknowledging the need of same-sex couples for access to an alternative legal framework in order to meet basic social requirements

Op Eds OP. ED.

Judicial Innovation: Devising Effective Court Management Strategies for Addressing Arrears and Pendency in Indian Courts

by Shubham Pandey* and Uday Shankar**

Case Briefs High Courts

Delhi High Court issues directions and recommendations to MEITY and Delhi Police to deal cases regarding Non-consensual intimate images dissemination

There is an abysmal absence of a collaborative effort that should ideally be undertaken by the intermediaries and the State.

Op Eds OP. ED.

Pricing Algorithm in Competitive Law

by Sankalp Mirani

Case Briefs High Courts

Karnataka HC | A third party’s privacy cannot be permitted to be violated on the specious plea of a husband seeking to prove his wife’s illicit relationship

A Family Court order allowed a husband to seek mobile tower record details of the petitioner’s mobile number, so that he can prove the existence of illicit relations between the petitioner and his wife. The Karnataka HC sternly quashed the same citing violation of petitioner’s Right to Privacy

Case Briefs High Courts

Madras High Court |Duty of the law enforcing agencies to be more vigilant in curbing the social media menace and maintain the social decorum and harmony in society

The citizens, through the various social media platforms cause havoc to the nation and degrade the credibility and respect which the other countries around the globe have on Mother India

Case Briefs High Courts

Madhya Pradesh High Court | ‘Violation of individual privacy’; Request for DNA test denied in property dispute

Madhya Pradesh High Court: G.S. Ahluwalia, J. dismissed a petition which was filed against the order passed by Twelfth Civil

Interviews

In conversation with Jade Jeremiah Lyngdoh on Privacy & Technology Law

Interviewed by Nisha Gupta

Case Briefs High Courts

Kerala HC | Whether husband going abroad for employment amount to desertion and cruelty? HC decides

Kerala High Court: The Division Bench comprising A. Muhamed Mustaque and Sophy Thomas, JJ., held that cruelty has to be assessed from

Case Briefs Tribunals/Commissions/Regulatory Bodies

Name and Designation of Officers of IBBI is exempted under S. 8(1)(j) of the RTI Act: First Appellate Authority, IBBI

First Appellate Authority, Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India (IBBI): Santosh Kumar Shukla, First Appellate Authority, observed that the name and designation