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title: "Right To Privacy Hearing Day 2"
description: "*Privacy crucial in digital age*
A democracy cannot exist without the Right to Privacy
*A Summary of Day 2 of the Nine Judge Constitution Bench Hearing*
The bench of nine SC judges continued hearing a..."
pubDate: 2017-07-20
author: Rethink Aadhaar
category: Uncategorized
originalUrl: https://rethinkaadhaar.in/blog/right-to-privacy-hearing-day-2
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*Privacy crucial in digital age*
A democracy cannot exist without the Right to Privacy
*A Summary of Day 2 of the Nine Judge Constitution Bench Hearing*
The bench of nine SC judges continued hearing arguments for a second day, to settle the question of whether Indian citizens have a fundamental right to privacy, in the ongoing Aadhaar case. Several petitioners had questioned whether the government can mandatorily link the 12-digit, biometrics linked UID number to government services, and make it compulsory to enroll in the biometrics database.
**Senior advocate Arvind Datar reiterating that any right to privacy cannot be solely located under any one article of the Indian Constitution.** Given the judges’ questions on defining the contours of the right to privacy, Datar laid emphasis on deciding the test of right to privacy on a case-by-case basis.
Senior advocate Anand Grover then reiterated that the right to privacy must be given a flexible meaning. He referred to the Protection of Human Rights Act, 1993, specifically Section 2(f) to suggest that international human rights law had been read into Indian law.** Locating dignity within Article 21, he said privacy must be cultivated from dignity. **He highlighted the hyphenation of “privacy-dignity claims”, quoting from the 1975 order in Govind vs State of MP: “there can be no doubt that privacy-dignity claims deserve to be examined with care.”