Sharma, who was involved in development of Aadhaar, said that the Supreme Court after lot of deliberations held there is no threat to individual privacy from Aadhaar and despite this judgement many people continue to debate on Aadhaar.
The top court said Aadhaar is serving much bigger public interest and Aadhaar means unique and it is better to be unique than being best.
The Supreme Court was on Wednesday told that the invasion of citizens' right to privacy since 2009 can't be saved and validated by a 2016 law.
Senior advocate Kapil Sibal, appearing for the West Bengal government, referred to parts of Modi’s recent speech at the World Economic Forum at Davos to assail Aadhaar scheme in the apex court.
The Aadhaar myth buster series is aimed at quelling fears that the ID or its number can be used to track private activities of its owners or to persecute them on the basis of the information.
In August, a nine judge bench of the Supreme Court ruled that Indians enjoy a fundamental right to privacy, now the court will look at whether or not Aadhaar violates an individual’s privacy.
In the midst of all these developments, the verdicts cherished most by citizens and that hogged the international glare was that of Triple Talaq.
From Right to Privacy to triple talaq, there were several key issues where verdicts by the apex court altered the status quo.
Centre's directive making linkage of Aadhaar mandatory for mobile numbers and bank accounts has been challenged in SC on grounds that it infringes upon an individual's right to privacy.
The UIDAI said it had taken note of the breach and got the data removed from those websites.
An astounding number of Indian smartphone users, around 40 per cent, knowingly or otherwise, share data with others across the world, including the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), a parliamentary panel has reportedly been told
UIDAI CEO Ajay Bhushan Pandey said the top court's verdict on privacy has no bearing on the requirement for taxpayers to link their Aadhaar with PAN by month-end
The Supreme Court had yesterday said "nobody would like to be told what to eat or how to dress" while ruling that these activities come under the realm of the right to privacy
Having over-ruled the judgments pronounced 63 years and 55 years ago in 1954 and 1962 respectively, Justice Chandrachud said that privacy is the constitutional core of human dignity which has both a normative and descriptive function
In several references in the judgement, Justice Chandrachud on Thursday dismissed the reasons cited by the Supreme Court in upholding Section 377 that criminalises gay sex
The right to privacy of an individual is a natural, cherished, inseparable and inalienable right which is born with a human being and extinguishes with it, the Supreme Court said today
The nine judges unanimously overruled the two earlier judgements of the apex court that right to privacy is not protected under the Constitution. The bench overruled the M P Sharma verdict of 1954 and that of Kharak Singh of 1962.
In a landmark decision that will affect the lives of all Indians, the Supreme Court unanimously declared that right to privacy was a Fundamental right under the Constitution.
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