Apar Gupta
The writer is an advocate practising in Delhi.
Sat, Mar 05, 2022
Apar Gupta writes: It will allow government to enrich and sell data to private sector, will risk prioritising commercial interests over privacy
Mon, Dec 20, 2021
🔴 Apar Gupta, Vrinda Bhandari writes: The JPC report and the Data Protection Bill, 2021 protect the government instead of the personal data of Indian citizens
Fri, Oct 29, 2021
Apar Gupta writes: The Supreme Court's move for independent probe is an important step towards fixing accountability.
Fri, Oct 01, 2021
Apar Gupta writes: There is judicial consensus that they lack statutory backing and harm freedom of speech and expression.
Sun, Sep 05, 2021
Apar Gupta and Anushka Jain write: Rather than deterring crime, surveillance project compromises women’s safety and liberties of all citizens, is fiscally imprudent.
Wed, Jul 14, 2021
Apar Gupta, Rohin Garg write: Ashwini Vaishnaw must implement broader digital governance framework. Process of updating IT Act must be made public.
Sat, May 15, 2021
In the absence of the internet and without knowledge of how CoWin functions, the majority of India’s rural population is being left out of Covid inoculation effort
Fri, Feb 26, 2021
Apar Gupta writes: The substance of many of the requirements were never put to public consultation or deliberation by experts. This is particularly the case for the regulations for online news portals and video streaming platforms.
Fri, Feb 12, 2021
It leaves a sense of confusion and wonder about why our own government formed under the Constitution may be failing to fulfil its obligations when strangers who trade in our data for profit are seemingly more eager.
Sat, Aug 24, 2019
Two years after historic SC judgment, its promise has not been fully realised.
Sat, Jun 01, 2019
A linguistic framework to articulate the alarm that comes from a rapidly changing ecology of a digitised society.
Mon, Feb 25, 2019
In refusing to keep the application alive even when a majority of states/UTs had not yet furnished replies, the Court has again made the afterlife of 66-A a non-transparent affair.
Fri, Sep 28, 2018
Amending of Aadhaar Act should not be a restoration of state’s power.
Sat, May 12, 2018
The outlines of a progressive movement for greater government accountability emerge from the narration of Aruna Roy and the MKSS Collectives in The RTI Story: Power to the People.
Fri, May 04, 2018
Consensus among parties against fake news is born from an instinct to censor dissent, not protect democratic values
Mon, Dec 11, 2017
That’s the rating of India by a report on internet freedom. It’s troubling
Mon, Sep 25, 2017
The DOT circulars seeking Aadhaar-Mobile linking have no legal force
Fri, Aug 25, 2017
The right to privacy was a constitutionally accepted and applied right recognised by an interpretative device of the Supreme Court since 1975. Over the decades, more than 30 decisions of the apex court applied privacy as a bundle of rights that permitted liberty of thought and action.
Fri, Jan 13, 2017
Governments are making Aadhaar mandatory in contravention of court orders
Sat, Nov 05, 2016
Despite the design, reality can be different. Neelam and Shekhar Krishnamoorthy, who lost their teenage children, Unnati and Ujjwal, in the Uphaar theatre tragedy narrate such an incident in Trial by Fire.
Wed, Oct 26, 2016
Government-mandated interruptions are rising. Economic and social costs are huge.
Tue, Mar 29, 2016
Aadhaar legislation points to the need for a comprehensive privacy law.
Wed, Feb 10, 2016
Trai does well to safeguard net neutrality. But a legal challenge can’t be far behind
Wed, Jan 06, 2016
Delay in settling net neutrality issues helps big incumbents, entrenches bad norms.
Porn ban in India
Thu, Aug 06, 2015
We avoid a discussion on pornography. And stretch the law in opposite directions.