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India's Top Court Rules Privacy a Fundamental Right in Blow To Government
India's top court unanimously ruled on Thursday that individual privacy is a fundamental right, a verdict that will impact everything from the way companies handle personal data to the roll-out of the world's largest biometric ID card program. From a report: A nine-member bench of India's Supreme Court announced the ruling in a big setback for the Narendra Modi-led government, which argued that privacy was not a fundamental right protected by the constitution. The ruling comes against the backdrop of a large multi-party case against the mandatory use of national identity cards, known as Aadhaar, as an infringement of privacy. There have also been concerns over breaches of data. Critics say the ID cards link enough data to create a comprehensive profile of a person's spending habits, their friends and acquaintances, the property they own and a trove of other information. "This is a blow to the government, because the government had argued that people do not have a right to privacy," said Prashant Bhushan, a senior lawyer involved in the case.
According to "progressives", there's no such thing as a "fundamental" right.
Nope. You don't have a right to free speech. "Progressives" say that's only given to you by the government.
Would you trust any government with a complete profile of your every move or transaction?
Here, FTFY.
Nice of the Indian Supreme Court to rule in such a correct manner, and good luck to the people in India in taking their privacy back. Now if the US Supreme Court would just do so we can be rid of a whole lot of problems here.
The judiciary of India is able to recognize that their bureaucrats (and possibly, their corporations) are untrustworthy, instead of blaming it on imaginary leftist provocateurs.
And the lowest common denominator has made himself know. I'm sure you're bitter that someone can be more intelligent than you despite not having mummy and daddy pay for their education, you shouldn't beat yourself up for being born stupid but being xenophobic is not acceptable and you can do something about that.
Try a two-dimensional political compass if you want to see something that resembles reality more closely. "Right" and "Left" fail when you look at the fact that Stalin and Hitler were on the opposite ends of the economy spectrum (State-planned economy vs. Fascist corporatism) but resided on the same end on the liberal vs. authoritarian spectrum.
In other words, try something like this if you really want to place people accurately. You might discover that a one dimensional "left" vs "right" scheme isn't able to actually display political reality accurately.
Unless of course this isn't your goal.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Why shouldn't a 3rd world country worshiping cows make better decisions than a 3rd world country worshiping a corpse nailed onto two poles? Just because the latter has nukes? So does the former.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
A country of more than 1 BILLION people just had their highest court rule that people's privacy is a BASIC HUMAN RIGHT; SCOTUS, I AM LOOKING AT YOU RIGHT NOW.