must also be placed in the
context of other rights and values.
Any right to privacy must encompass and protect
the personal intimacies ... right to personal liberty, the right to move freely
throughout the territory of India and the freedom of
speech create an independent right of privacy
question as to ‘how transparent is transparent
enough’1 under the Right to Information Act, 2005 (‘ RTI Act ’ for
short) in the context of collegium ... effective functioning of the institution. Right to
information is not an unfettered constitutional right, albeit a right
Civil Appeal
also take
in, the right of the public to know. The right to be left alone or the right to
privacy cannot be invoked ... Article
21. It is a “right to be let alone”. A citizen has a right to
safeguard the privacy of his own, his family, marriage
education among other matters.
Restrictions and Limitations:
47. Right to information and Right to privacy are, therefore, not absolute rights,
both the rights ... right to
personal liberty, the right to move freely throughout the territory of India and
the freedom of speech create an independent right of privacy
right to be let alone,. A
citizen has a right to safegmrd the privacy of his own, his family, marriage,
procreotion, motherhood, child bearing ... statute Act which provides for rights and
obligations ofpersons. on the other hand, the right to privacy is a facet ofright
to life and personal
rights test which is
often applied in the right to information legislation to balance right to access and
protection of the conflicting right to deny ... three
key elements of informational privacy: privacy as secrecy, privacy as control,
and privacy as anonymity, to observe:
"214. [...] anonymity may, depending
learned counsel for third party Shri Jaina
submitted that Right to Information and Right to Privacy fall within Articles 19
and 21 of the Constitution ... common law that treated it as right associated with 'right
to property'.....
.....The concept of privacy embodies the moral fact that a
person
right to be let alone'. A citizen
has a right to safeguard the privacy of his own, his family, marriage,
procreation, motherhood, child bearing ... statute Act which provides for rights and obligations of persons. On the
other hand, the right to privacy is a facet of right to life
definition of Section 2(h) of the Act.
Right to Information and the Right to Privacy
44. People’s right to have access ... education among other matters.”
Restrictions and Limitations:
47. Right to information and Right to privacy are, therefore, not
absolute rights, both the rights
Singh v. State of U.P. , held that "right" includes "right to privacy" as a part of the right to life ... health or morals or protection of rights and freedom of others.
13. The right to privacy now forms a part of right to life
