Tech & Law
Plea Seeking Action Against Google Pay For Allegedly Violating RBI Guidelines on Data Protection, Delhi HC Issues Notice
Delhi High Court has issued notice in a plea seeking action against Google Pay for allegedly violating guidelines issued by the Reserve Bank of India on data protection. The Division Bench of Chief Justice DN Patel and Justice Prateek has issued notices to Google India, Union of India and the RBI. Filed by Mr Abhishek Sharma, the petition seeks a direction to be issued to...
'It Would Be Better To Hear The Union Minister': CJI On Electric Vehicles To Reduce Pollution
"What is the government's plan regarding electrical vehicles? The (Union) Transport Minister (Nitin Gadkari) may want to tell us about the scheme and its implementation? He has made many statements about the use of these e-vehicles, about CNG being less-polluting", observed Chief Justice S. A. Bobde on Wednesday. The court was hearing NGO CPIL's petition for the enforcement of the...
SC Issues Notice On Plea For Adopting Electric Vehicles To Combat Air Pollution And Climate Change
The Supreme Court on Friday issued notice on a petition highlighlighting the failure of government policies to provide for adoption of Electric Vehicles in the country in light of the serious impact of fossil fuel based vehicles on Global Warming, Climate Change, & Air PollutionThe petition, which was jointly filed by organizations including Centre for Public Interest Litigation, Common...
SC Defers Hearing Of Challenge Against MHA's 'Snooping' Order Authorizing Central Agencies To Monitor Online Data
The Supreme Court on Tuesday deferred hearing on a string of PILs challenging the Ministry of Home Affairs' notification of December 20 last year authorizing ten Security and Intelligence agencies to intercept, monitor and decrypt "any information generated, transmitted, received or stored in any computer."The petitions, filed by inter alia advocate M.L. Sharma, Internet Freedom Federation...
Foreign Company Has Source Code of Aadhaar Project; It Has Access To Citizens' Information : Certain Worrying Findings By Justice Chandrachud
The impact of Facebook-Camridge Analytica incident also reverberated in the judgment as Justice Chandrachud acknowledged that profiling of individual preferences could also be used to influence the decision making of the electorate in choosing candidates for electoral offices.Though the majority of Supreme Court Constitution Bench has upheld the validity of Aadhaar project, certain findings...
SC's Privacy Judgment Casts Its Shadow Over WhatsApp's Data Sharing Policy Case [Read Order]
The WhatsApp Case, being heard by the five-Judge Constitution bench of the Supreme Court, took an interesting turn today, with the Court and the counsel examining the impact of the recent landmark privacy judgment of the Court on the proceedings.At the outset, Madhavi Divan, counsel for the appellant, referred to the paragraphs in the privacy judgment, which have relevance in the...