Author(s)
Adv. Yashwant Shailendra Soni
- Manuscript ID: 140678
- Volume: 2
- Issue: 6
- Pages: 2861–2871
Subject Area: Other
Abstract
Privacy and transparency have always lived in creative tension within democratic legal systems. In India, that tension has been elevated, in the age of the internet, to the level of a constitutional confrontation. The right to informational privacy which finds its most consequential modern expression in the Right to be Forgotten (RTBF) sits uneasily alongside the right of citizens, journalists, and civil society to access public information. Both are legitimate, both are constitutionally grounded, and yet each, when pushed to its logical extreme, threatens to extinguish the other.