Paper-Thin Safeguards and Mass Surveillance in India

Abstract

This paper examines the right to privacy and surveillance in India, in an effort to highlight more clearly the problems that are likely to emerge with mass surveillance of communication by the Indian Government. It does this by teasing out Indian privacy rights jurisprudence and the concerns underpinning it, by considering its utility in the context of mass surveillance and then explaining the kind of harm that might result if mass surveillance continues unchecked.

Keywords: surveillance, privacy, mass-surveillance, human rights, constitutional law, right to privacy, phone-tapping