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Privacy

To begin with, both the common law and the literal understandings of privacy encompass the individual’s control of information concerning his or her person. In an organized society, there are few facts that are not at one time or another divulged to another. Thus the extent of the protection accorded a privacy right at common law rested in part on the degree of dissemination of the allegedly private fact and the extent to which the passage of time rendered it private. According to Webster’s initial definition, information may be classified as “private” if it is “intended for or restricted to the use of a particular person or group or class of persons: not freely available to the public.

A citizen has a right to safeguard the privacy of his own and no one can publish anything without his consent whether truthful or otherwise and whether laudatory or critical. SC

A citizen has a right to safeguard the privacy of his own and no one can publish anything without his consent whether truthful or otherwise and whether laudatory or critical.

advtanmoy 05/06/2018
Supreme Court of India in R. Rajagopal vs State Of T.N [1995 AIR 264, 1994 SCC (6) 632]...
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