{"id":28101,"date":"2018-10-23T18:08:11","date_gmt":"2018-10-23T12:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=28101"},"modified":"2018-10-23T18:08:11","modified_gmt":"2018-10-23T12:38:11","slug":"a-fundamental-error","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/a-fundamental-error\/","title":{"rendered":"A fundamental error"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/opinion\/lead\/a-fundamental-error\/article24566374.ece\">A fundamental error<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Article:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Apar Gupta and Ujwala Uppaluri, practicing advocates, highlighted that the Srikrishna report on data protection misinterprets the Supreme Court\u2019s right to privacy judgment.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><u>Important facts:<\/u><\/p>\n<p>2. Last year the Supreme Court judgment on the right to privacy imposed upon the government an obligation to make a law safeguarding a person\u2019s informational privacy, commonly referred to as data protection.<\/p>\n<p>3. Consequently, the Union government had tasked a committee headed by Justice B.N. Srikrishna to formulate such a law in July last year.<\/p>\n<p>4. The committee provides set of recommendations and also produced a draft law titled the \u201cThe Personal Data Protection Bill, 2018.<\/p>\n<p>5. The author highlighted that the Srikrishna report on data protection misinterprets the Supreme Court\u2019s right to privacy judgment .<\/p>\n<p>6. The recommendations do not only undermine the legal principles within it but also reinterpret them. The committee stay away from the below two points:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It expressly stated the primacy of the individual as the beneficiary of fundamental rights.<\/li>\n<li>It rejected the argument that the right to privacy dissolves in the face of amorphous collective notions of economic development.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>7. Its report, titled \u201cA Free and Fair Digital Economy: Protecting Privacy, Empowering Indians\u201d, runs into tremendous difficulties as it attempts to put together a regulatory agenda that reconciles the expansion of the digital economy and state control with the principles of the right to privacy judgment.<\/p>\n<p>8. These difficulties reveal themselves in a misunderstanding of the fundamentals of constitutional law.<\/p>\n<p>9. The state\u2019s purpose under the Constitution, says the report, is \u201cbased on two planks\u201d.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The state is a facilitator of human progress and is \u201ccommanded\u201d by the Directive Principles of State Policy \u201cto serve the common good\u201d.<\/li>\n<li>Fundamental Rights, which help protect against a state \u201cprone to excess\u201d.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>10. The report attempts to open the right to privacy to allow the state the most convenient means by which to realize its regulatory agenda.<\/p>\n<p>11. According to the author, it is not often that the\u00a0Supreme Court\u00a0assembles and pronounces a unanimous judgment without dissent. The promise of such a holding becomes more critical when it concerns the liberty of individuals and an attempt to correct an imbalance of power which exists against them.<\/p>\n<p>12. By re-framing and re-interpreting the right to privacy, the report entrenches the positions of the two entities which already wield the most power over ordinary Indians: corporations and the government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A fundamental error Article: Apar Gupta and Ujwala Uppaluri, practicing advocates, highlighted that the Srikrishna report on data protection misinterprets the Supreme Court\u2019s right to privacy judgment. Important facts: 2. Last year the Supreme Court judgment on the right to privacy imposed upon the government an obligation to make a law safeguarding a person\u2019s informational&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/a-fundamental-error\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A fundamental error<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704541606},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28101\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}