Justice K.S.Puttaswamy(Retd) And Anr. vs Union Of India And Ors. on 24 August, 2017
If such an individual
is not allowed to erase his past and control the
information on his person, no doubt, it would
violate his right to live with dignity. However,
the Court cannot make a declaration in current
proceedings, acknowledging the right to be
forgotten to erase data for the current and the
future. That will be against the very essence of
the recognition of the right as a right to be
forgotten. The Apex Court in the privacy judgment
in para.636 of Justice K.S. Puttaswamy's case
(supra),realising this aspect, put forward as
follows: