Updates on Aadhaar Final Hearing: Day 10
On day 10, Mr. Kapil Sibal resumed his arguments and read out provisions from Israel’s biometric ID law dealing with definition and purpose of biometric…

RTI: MeitY provides details of Blocked Websites/URLs
On August 28, 2017, SFLC.in filed an application under the Right to Information Act, 2005 seeking the following information: 1. The number of websites that…
Updates on Aadhaar Final Hearing: Day 8
On Day 8 of the final hearing, continuing his arguments on behalf of the petitioners, Senior Advocate Kapil Sibal read out Section 8(3)(c). He stated…
Updates on Aadhaar Final Hearing: Day 7
Today, on Day 7, Senior Advocate Shyam Divan continued reading affidavits of Siraj Dutta from the previous hearing to emphasize on the point that, Aadhaar…
Updates on Aadhaar Final Hearing: Day 6
The hearing for day 6 began with Mr. Shyam Divan, counsel for petitioners, submitting a note on the concept of client IP and device IP. While explaining…
Updates on Aadhaar Final Hearing: Day 5
Day 5 began with Senior Advocate Shyam Divan recapitulating his arguments on surveillance from the previous hearing. He then discussed the ECHR judgment of Zakharov…
Updates on Aadhaar Final Hearing: Day 4
The hearing for Day 4 started with Senior Advocate Shyam Divan taking the court through Section 59 of the Aadhaar Act-the savings clause validating all the…
Updates on Aadhaar Final Hearing: Day 3
The arguments on day 3 commenced with Mr. Shyam Divan continuing with the Privacy judgment in the case of Puttaswamy v. Union of India. He read…
Updates on Aadhaar Final Hearing: Day 2
The hearing on Day 2 began with Senior Advocate Shyam Divan resuming his arguments for the petitioners. He clarified on the deterministic and probabilistic systems of identification. He…
Updates on Aadhaar Final Hearing: Day 1
The hearing on Day 1 began with the Attorney General requesting the court to allocate time to both sides for arguments. Shyam Divan, Senior Advocate…

Extension of Aadhaar linking deadlines: What’s the catch?
Earlier this month on December 14, a five-judge Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court (SC) of India heard arguments for interim relief from a batch…

[Press Release] SFLC.in organizes public discussion on ‘Privacy & Data Protection: The Road Ahead’ today in Kochi
Kochi, December 18, 2017: Delhi-based not-for-profit legal services organization SFLC.in today organized a public discussion on ‘Privacy & Data Protection: The Road Ahead’ today in…
