A year where India celebrates her 75th Independence day – is also a year where it is time to re-examine what our driving principles remain.
Even as we struggle with our basic tenets, the right to equality, freedom, to constitutional remedies; is it time to add the right to data in that list? Access to data where India has had 109 internet shutdowns in 2020, and the right to privacy of data where allegations of state-sponsored surveillance through Pegasus are now faced by the government.
Mitali Mukherjee spoke with noted academician and political scientist Pratap Bhanu Mehta on the sweeping changes to privacy, democracy and human rights we’ve seen in the past few years, and why the solution lies squarely within politics.