Category: Right to Privacy
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Electronic Health Records: Understanding Privacy in Healthcare
INTRODUCTION While headlines like “India to become the world leader in Digital Health[i]” often catch one’s eye, it is hard to miss scare heads like “India’s health system is frail, inadequate and of inconsistent quality[ii].” With such diverging headlines, it is difficult to not be confused by the wide-ranging contrast and even more difficult to…
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Aarogya Setu App in Teeth of Right to Privacy: A Debacle?
INTRODUCTION As the Indian Government is trying to fight this unprecedented pandemic caused by COVID-19, it has been pushing its citizens to use the Aarogya Setu Application. Using digital technology, the Indian Government employed a strategy to improve the situation of public health in the country. On 14th April 2020, the Indian Prime Minister…
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Aarogya Setu App – A test for the Personal Data Protection Bill 2019
Introduction Coronavirus (hereinafter “Covid-19”) will go, but the kind of world it will leave behind will be a very different one than what it has been. This pandemic has brought the world to a standstill and has taken lives of more than half a million people worldwide. Amidst this pandemic, India is struggling with a…
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e-Pharmacies and Right to Privacy: Need for Robust Regulatory Framework
The government of India decided to stop the sale of medicines through unlicensed online platforms considering the fact that most of these platforms don’t have the necessary license to sell medicines online as required under the law. The government also said that this direction will be effective until it finalizes the draft rules seeking to…
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Unleash the fight against COVID 19: is it a Hobson’s choice between having the right to privacy and upkeeping the public interest?
In the popular motion picture STAR TREK 2: the wrath of Khan, Spock famously quotes: “the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few.” In the wake of COVID 19, this statement is aptly suited because when there is no food, employment or adequate facilities for the masses, the issue of privacy seems…
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Misuse of Aarogya Setu Data: Addressing the question of liability
On 1st May 2020, the Ministry of Home Affairs issued an order mandating compulsory usage of ‘Aarogya Setu’ application for all employees who would be travelling to their respective workplaces.[i] The order also mandates that the state authorities will ensure 100% coverage of the application in ‘containment zones’.[ii] Aarogya Setu is an application developed by…
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