The Right to ‘Know’ v. The Right to say ‘No’: Who Wins This Privacy Face-off?
Introduction The Right to Information (“RTI”) Act, 2005, born out of grassroots struggles, remains a cornerstone of transparency and accountability in India. It gave citizens a powerful statutory tool to hold public authorities answerable. The Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023, however, threatens to weaken this achievement by broadening privacy-based exemptions that can obstruct legitimate […]
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