The Surveillance State, Privacy and Criminal Investigation in India: Possible Futures in a Post-Puttaswamy World
With a strong conception of privacy focussed on individual liberty after Puttaswamy, there is now a starting point ...
Right to Privacy
New Beginnings: Indian Rights Jurisprudence After Puttaswamy
Puttaswamy opens up the possibility of Constitution 3.0 that places the individual at the center and through a ...
Does India’s covid-19 Contact Tracing App Violate Digital Rights?
On 14 April 2020, during his speech on the extension of the lockdown in India, Prime Minister Narendra Modi urged ...
Covering Up for the Face Covering Regulation: A Janus-Faced Position
The storm over Hong Kong’s rule of law rages on, as the Court of Appeal (the “Court”) delivered the judgment of ...
El Gizouli: Mutual Legal Assistance Meets Data Protection
On 25 March 2020, the UK Supreme Court issued R (El Gizouli) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2020] ...
Dutch Court Provides Valuable Precedent for Human Rights in the Digital Welfare State
Even as the use of technologies utilising ‘artificial intelligence’ and ‘big data’ proliferates in the public ...
High Court of Kenya suspends implementation of biometric ID system
On 30 January 2020, the High Court of Kenya – the first level of the country’s superior courts, whose decisions ...
Facial Recognition Technology: The High Court’s flawed approach to information privacy
In September 2019, the English High Court ruled the use of automated facial recognition technology (AFR) by South ...
JCHR Report: The Right to Privacy (Article 8) and the Digital Revolution
On 3 November 2019, the Joint Committee on Human Rights (JCHR) published a report on The Right to Privacy (Article ...
Why the Digitization of Welfare States is a Pressing Human Rights Issue
In this blog post, Director of NYU Law’s Digital Welfare State and Human Rights Project, Christiaan van Veen, ...
Protecting the right to privacy against doxxing: injunction as the only effective means
Doxxing refers to the act of researching one’s private information (e.g. home address) and then exposing it ...
Police Use of Automated Facial Recognition Technology: an Emerging Challenge for Human Rights
Earlier this week, the High Court at Cardiff held that police use of automated facial recognition technology (AFR) ...
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