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Regarding India, They now have privacy as a right. Shouldn't they enforce it?

• wtmt 7y ago
  Privacy was declared by the Indian Supreme Court as a fundamental right found within some articles of the constitution. However, till date, there is no data privacy law proposed and passed in the parliament. The draft proposal that was prepared more than a year ago was criticized by many. There will likely be a half baked data privacy law that will be passed in the coming months (since the elections are done and the new government has taken office). Taking action on such violations today can only be done within the scope of existing laws on fraud, security, etc. That won’t work very well for these cases. The Indian Supreme Court also doesn’t understand technology and doesn’t rely on experts. It seems to go by whoever talks the loudest (based on the hearings in the case against the biometric based unique ID, called Aadhaar).