The Supreme Court is likely to hear later this month several clubbed petitions regarding India's first privacy law, the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, with each petition challenging a separate aspect of the legislation.
The petitioners are the Reporters' Collective, the Editors Guild of India, the National Campaign for People's Right to Information, Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sanghatan, human rights and transparency activist Venkatesh Nayak and journalist Geeta Seshu. Among other aspects, they have questioned provisions which amend the Right to Information (RTI) Act and allegedly enable blanket denial of information requests involving personal data.
