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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.
...splat! all over the roads!
Did I tell you about the bodies floating down the Ganges? India's bathtub?
How about the right not to be raped on a bus. How does the court feel about that?
Those people need help, and privacy morons are hurting the people. When people are starving and don't have clean water, this Republican-style paranoia is going to kill millions.
"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"
Well these can also be obtained by a breach of a front-door, should we then forbid front-doors as well?
Criminals commit crimes, you can't stay in the past out of fear, just put them in jail when it happens.
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.
No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honour and reputation. Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such interference or attacks.
India ratified this. So what's the big deal, Modi?
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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.
A court in a 3rd world country, full of people that worship cows, is able to make better decisions than the US. Really sad...
Is this the first time a large, democratic government has expressly considered meta-data in a ruling?
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I ain't no lawyer, but I bet that word "arbitrary" leaves a lot of wiggle room.
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Like the US, India's legal system is based upon English common law. In my little fantasy World here, I'm imagining some American lawyer using the Indian's argument here in the US and prevailing.
Then again, I hope not because that would mean a very very painful experience for me as those monkeys fly out of my ass.
I think that right is long gone and will never be back.
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So that the transition to the US upon your migration will be painless^X^X^X less painful from such tyranny
...is that Dubya was a Republican.
Vote GOP, and you can get invasive social engineering crap just like you can if you vote Democrat.
Yeah, and that "attacks upon honour and reputation" clause sounds like a trap for suppressing the criticism of leaders and any other speech that they do not like. Let's not break out the party hats just yet.
Third World originally meant countries not allied with either the Soviet Union or the USA.
Later, it took on the meaning of a dirt poor country, typically in the tropics.
By *either* definition, India is the definition of THIRD WORLD.
I'm actually pretty surprised, and happily so! Now, if only some Western countries' courts would smarten up!
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There goes Facebook's last great hope of rounding up another billion users. According to "Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley" by Antonio Garcia Martinez, Facebook only has 2B users left on the planet to sign up before user growth slows to a crawl as the remaining users are in places too remote for the Internet. Whether logged in or browsing anonymously, Facebook combines its own data with third-party demographic data to identify each user. India's privacy ruling might make that difficult. Or maybe not.
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It's kind of like "reasonable" in the 4th, open to interpretation. Shit, even things like the 1st are open to interpretation, you have free speech as long as we can't argue national security or as long as it doesn't hurt a child are a couple of exceptions to the rule that Congress can make no law infringing on speech.
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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.
Yet another nation puts the US to shame on these issues.
comprehensive profile of a person's spending habits, their friends and acquaintances, the property they own and a trove of other information.
So, India will not get social security and services with fraud prevention, reliable tax collection, lessened impact of organized crime, infrastructure.. Oh wait, did I cross a completely innocent Texas longhorn there? My infidel ass must get beaten up with a bat, and soon.
These cards were being created to eliminate corruption from people getting government subsidies through falsified means and also to get control of terrorists coming across the border. In addition, they were being tied to back accounts to make sure that tax cheats were brought to justice (this second part is already done in the US via SSNs).
However good the intent, it doesn't prevent them from being abused in the future, so the supreme court ruling makes sense.
However, the irony is that the intent of this Indian Government was good, but the court stymied them because of long term concerns. The intent in the US of corporations and the government is generally not good (monetize privacy and a predisposition to incarceration), and even through the US Supreme Court has "derived" an implicit right to privacy, the current court is one judge away from a majority being "constitutionalists" who won't recognize this right.
So what's the big deal, Modi?
The creation of religiously pure, Hindu India. All those cow-eaters, repent, begone or get beaten by the vigilant groups. That's what a recent France24 report told me. There was probably a good reason for the introduction of non-violence tactics by Gandhi at the time. He knew his people. Just like Orwell did his.
It is easy to blame a new system that can easily deliver a lot more than most of the systems in existence. Is it fool proof? No. Nothing is fool proof. Can it be made better? Sure. For any project, you need to execute operations pretty well to take care of day to day problems/inaccuracies. Most of the complaints have politically motivations, bias of India being third world country and can't do anything good in addition to ignorance of reality as motive. We may want it or not, every society is trying to gather more and more data about individuals in any way possible. US FCC is on path to get rid of net neutrality. Knowing who you are in every transaction opens up new usecases in every aspect of social interaction. Privacy, though desired, doesn't exist in any society. There is a false sense of privacy in some parts of the world. No wonder lot of people even wonder why privacy should be basic right. Even Swiss bank's have given up on that goal.
Ugh.
This is why "privacy" ought NOT be understood as "secrecy", but as a "privacy need" for every individual.
The general idea of "Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such interference or attacks." should NOT replace specific qualifiers (handling/storing/recording/trading/movement of "personal data"), when the general idea of "Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such interference or attacks." is not about privacy needs as such, but instead, sounds like retribution or reparation, which would be counter to my idea of needs-as-rights. Basically it should imo be like about you being able to claim a particular need in an ideal sense (something everybody would understand, or more importantly, understand BEFOREHAND), or, there is an understanding that everybody CAN claim a need (also to be understood BEFOREHAND).
Btw, I read something recently on twitter about India supposedly having lost data records on their citizens to the one and only CIA (USA), and as I think of how norway has said to previously have outsourced critical work on patient data software/systems to some Indian business, with what I like to think of as the theater of public outrage in the public sector of things (or ofc maybe it is all legit), I can't help but wonder if maybe (given that there might be a connection between CIA ops and India), that maybe the filphering of patient data from norway was arranged by local pro US politicians, though admittedly, there is no way for me to know this to even be the case. Just saying, it wouldn't surprise me the least. I swear, some years ago, I recall reading news about how the information about all the numbers equivalent to social security numbers for people in norway, had at one time been misplaced and lost, and presumably that data ended up in the hands of someone.