{"id":36008,"date":"2018-11-01T13:05:08","date_gmt":"2018-11-01T07:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=36008"},"modified":"2018-11-01T13:05:08","modified_gmt":"2018-11-01T07:35:08","slug":"a-litmus-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/a-litmus-test\/","title":{"rendered":"A Litmus Test:\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/opinion\/columns\/a-litmus-test-constitution-right-to-privacy-4764072\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A Litmus Test<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">:\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><b>Context<\/b><\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">Loss of Right to Privacy will take away the minute rights citizens hold today. The right to privacy is not explicitly mentioned in the Constitution.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><b>The cons of not having Right to Privacy<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">Citizens will lose guards against surveillance and even reporting by the state, the state could target those who speak against it, even voting preferences may be influenced, telephone tapping could be routinely resorted to and our mails intercepted.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">If the text of the Constitution alone is going to determine the nature of the right to privacy, then the collegium system, the right against arbitrariness and the freedom of press too could go soon.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">Intended surrender of personal information to private entities cannot be equated with mandatory data collection by the state.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">Despite the recognition of privacy as a fundamental right, the government will continue to have powers to impose \u201creasonable restrictions\u201d.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">It is nobody&#8217;s case that the right to privacy is an absolute right.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">Denial of privacy neither promotes national security nor curbs terrorism, it merely takes away citizen\u2019s freedom to be left alone and curtails his\/her choice in personal decisions.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Litmus Test:\u00a0 Context Loss of Right to Privacy will take away the minute rights citizens hold today. The right to privacy is not explicitly mentioned in the Constitution. The cons of not having Right to Privacy Citizens will lose guards against surveillance and even reporting by the state, the state could target those who&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/a-litmus-test\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Litmus Test:\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-36008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704541571},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36008","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=36008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36008\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}