Supreme Court seeks 'pin-point' response from Google

THE Supreme Court on Monday asked Google to explain how the pin location-sharing feature works on its Maps application so that it can decide whether asking an accused to share his pin location with the investigators as a pre-condition for granting bail would violate his right to privacy.

- SUCHITRA MOHANTY

"We need to examine if an accused (on the orders of the court) has to provide the investigators with detailed information about their whereabouts, then will it be likely to infringe the individual's right to privacy or not," a two-judge bench of the top court, headed by Justice Abhay S Oka and comprising Justice Ujjal Bhuyan asked.