{"id":35788,"date":"2018-11-01T11:47:09","date_gmt":"2018-11-01T06:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=35788"},"modified":"2018-11-01T11:47:09","modified_gmt":"2018-11-01T06:17:09","slug":"kerala-bats-for-right-to-privacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/kerala-bats-for-right-to-privacy\/","title":{"rendered":"Kerala bats for right to privacy:\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/todays-paper\/tp-national\/kerala-bats-for-right-to-privacy\/article19441387.ece\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kerala bats for right to privacy<\/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;\">Kerala Government had recently stated that technology in future could use the data collected through Aadhaar for surveillance<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Right to Privacy absolute?<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The state has further asked to protect the fundamental right and safeguard its citizens from intrusions by the State.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kerala has insisted that even though \u2018Right to privacy\u2019 is not \u201cabsolute\u201d. But it is a fundamental right nevertheless.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The submission to a nine-judge Constitution Bench, led by <\/span><b>Chief Justice of India J.S. Khehar, <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">came before the lengthy arguments on the question of whether the right to privacy is a fundamental right<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Misuse of Information<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the constitutional reference before the Bench, the Pinarayi Vijayan government supported the case of petitioners that technology would progress so much that data collected through Aadhaar could be used for surveillance<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This came as a significant intervention as other State governments had mostly intervened to submit that privacy should be recognised as a statutory right and not a fundamental right.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The government said privacy encompassed the \u201cpersonal intimacies of the home, family, marriage, motherhood, procreation, child rearing, feelings, love and passion, etc.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A person\u2019s thought process, fantasies, etc., would also necessarily come under his Right to Privacy\u201d.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Invasion of technology<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Counsel V.P. Surendranath and Nishe Rajan Shonker, representing Kerala further stated that the intimate details of a person\u2019s body, mind, thought process and fantasies must be treated as Right to Privacy \u2014 as part of Right to Life and Personal Liberty \u2014 under Article 21 of the Constitution<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kerala bats for right to privacy:\u00a0 Context Kerala Government had recently stated that technology in future could use the data collected through Aadhaar for surveillance Right to Privacy absolute? The state has further asked to protect the fundamental right and safeguard its citizens from intrusions by the State. Kerala has insisted that even though \u2018Right&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/kerala-bats-for-right-to-privacy\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Kerala bats for right to privacy:\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-35788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":1700784344,"cached_date":1704856886},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35788","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=35788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35788\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}