RIGHT TO PRIVACY IN THE DAWN OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY- A CRITICAL REVIEW

Abstract “Recent media reports have brought to light atrocities being committed by the Mumbai police which involve detaining couples from various hotels. Different governmental schemes which empower the government to delve into all the information of its citizens have raised serious questions on the existence of privacy rights of the citizens. India being an emerging economy is seen as a viable market at the global level but such viability stands vulnerable if Indian law is not in conformity with its business counterparts. Privacy plays one of the most integral part of a man’s life and is as important as the right to live.2 But since we know that India falls under the umbrella of those rare nations whose constitution has not given cognizance to Privacy rights in its queue of Fundamental Rights,3 hence the development of this new right is attracting so much attention both at national and international level.”