The right to privacy

A stable door being bolted after the horses have fled? This view of India’s privacy law may seem justified, given that rules under the Digital Personal Data Protection Act of 2023 were notified only last week, more than eight years after the Supreme Court deemed privacy a fundamental right under the Indian Constitution.

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The right’s online enforcement will take some time, as data gatherers must comply with its nitty-gritty over 18 months. By now, AI seems to have scraped enough of our thumb trails (and perhaps even voice cues) off the internet to display a spooky level of intimacy