Informational Privacy: Constitutional and Common Law Remedies

The background of this seminal work comes from K.S. Puttaswamy (Privacy-9J.) v. Union of India, (2017) 10 SCC 1 comprising nine judges of the Supreme Court which unanimously declared the right to privacy to be a fundamental right of utmost importance. This work accurately analyses the right of privacy from a legal, constitutional perspective. It explains the importance and necessity of judicial remedies against the encroachment of right of privacy by private players, echoing the view expressed by the Supreme Court of India in Kaushal Kishor v. State of U.P.

Key Features:

• This book focuses on shaping a new remedy grounded in the law of torts to protect and enhance privacy rights.
• The publication helps in understanding how the remedy for privacy rights violations can be pursued by relying on the structural framework contained in Article 226 of the Constitution of India.
• This book proposes that Article 226 is wide enough in its scope to apply in relation to remedies sought for privacy rights violations carried out by non-State actors.