{"id":35766,"date":"2018-11-01T11:42:14","date_gmt":"2018-11-01T06:12:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=35766"},"modified":"2018-11-01T11:42:14","modified_gmt":"2018-11-01T06:12:14","slug":"privacy-in-the-digital-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/privacy-in-the-digital-age\/","title":{"rendered":"Privacy in the digital age:\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/todays-paper\/tp-opinion\/privacy-in-the-digital-age\/article19447819.ece\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Privacy in the digital age<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Context:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The current focus on the right to privacy is based on some new realities of the digital age. <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Explanation:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The digital network enters the most proximate spaces and challenges the normally accepted notions of the private.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It brings into focus new means of exercising social, economic, and political power, and reducing of autonomies.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It seems that for many, the right is basically against the state, and not so much the digital corporations.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But a right is a substantive right only if it works in all situations, and for everyone. For example;<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> A right to free expression for an individual about her exploitation is meaningless without actual availability of security that guarantees that private force cannot be used to thwart this right.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The role of the state therefore is not just to abstain from preventing rightful free expression but also to actively ensure that private parties are not able to block it.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Suggestions:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Like in the physical space, the private and the public must be separated in the digital realm as well.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We need a constitutional definition and guarantee of the right to individuality, personal autonomy and privacy in the digital age.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> While establishing a right to privacy, the Supreme Court must also direct the state to develop appropriate institutions for shaping the state\u2019s role in a digital society\/economy. <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> This may require, at some stage, an independent branch of the state exclusively dealing with data issues and management.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Framing of a right to privacy must not curtail the state\u2019s due role in our collective digital futures.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This will only ensure that global digital corporations become all-powerful economic, social and political actors.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They already provide most of the digital services that appear to be of a public good nature, and in turn control and shape entire sectors.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A citizen must have options to undertake basic digital functions like emailing, information search, social networking, etc. without sacrificing her privacy rights.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Privacy in the digital age:\u00a0 Context: The current focus on the right to privacy is based on some new realities of the digital age. Explanation: \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The digital network enters the most proximate spaces and challenges the normally accepted notions of the private. It brings into focus new means of exercising social, economic, and political power,&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/privacy-in-the-digital-age\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Privacy in the digital age:\u00a0<\/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-35766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1701112769},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35766","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=35766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35766\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}