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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Fact check: Did the government advocate privacy as a fundamental right as Ravi Shankar Prasad says? Not really -Mayank Jain

Fact check: Did the government advocate privacy as a fundamental right as Ravi Shankar Prasad says? Not really -Mayank Jain

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published Published on Aug 25, 2017   modified Modified on Aug 25, 2017
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Hours after the Supreme Court held privacy to be a fundamental right, Minister of Information and Technology Ravi Shankar Prasad claimed that the Narendra Modi government was in favour of declaring privacy a fundamental right. Is this correct?

First, here is what Prasad said at a press conference in Delhi after the judgement was pronounced Thursday morning: “Government welcomes judgement. Government has been of the view, particularly with regard to Aadhaar, that the right to privacy should be fundamental right. The Supreme Court has affirmed what the government had said in Parliament while moving the Aadhaar Bill. Privacy should be a fundamental right subject to reasonable restrictions.”

Now, let’s look at the facts. Last March, the government passed the Aadhaar Bill in Lok Sabha despite loud objections over privacy concerns. Putting the Bill in motion, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said while there was no law declaring privacy as a fundamental right, the government presupposed it to be one.

He, however, added that it was not an absolute right. “Privacy is not an absolute right,” Jaitley said. “Supreme Court is considering the privacy issue. It is subject to a restriction; it can be restricted by a procedure established by law.” Jaitley claimed that the Aadhaar Bill that he had tabled tightened privacy provisions as compared to its previous drafts.

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Scroll.in, 24 August, 2017, https://scroll.in/article/848371/fact-check-did-the-government-advocate-privacy-as-a-fundamental-right-as-ravi-shankar-prasad-says


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