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Right to Privacy in the Age of Mass Surveillance by the State

Authors
Ikram Ul Haque1, Sayed Murtaza Ali Jafri2, *, Tausif Ur Rehman3
1Research Scholar, MANUU Law School, Hyderabad, Telangana, India
2Research Scholar, MANUU Law School, Hyderabad, Telangana, India
3Assistant Professor of Law, MANUU Law School, Hyderabad, Telangana, India
*Corresponding author. Email: murtazaalialig@yahoo.com
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Sayed Murtaza Ali Jafri
Available Online 26 December 2025.
DOI
10.2991/978-2-38476-515-7_9How to use a DOI?
Keywords
Privacy; Fundamental Right; Surveillance; Constitution; Supreme Court
Abstract

The right to privacy has been the most debatable constitutional question of the twenty first century particularly with the increased State surveillance. The Constitution provides no privacy protection, but then the Supreme Court has increasingly implied it into Article 14, Article 19, and Article 21 of the Constitution to create what has come to be termed as the golden triangle of constitutional guarantees. Early cases like A.K. Gopalan v State of Madras (1950) and Kharak Singh v. State of U.P. (1962) had provided an extremely narrow definition of liberty and privacy, but the later decisions in Gobind v. State of M.P. (1975) and People's Union for Civil Liberties v. Union of India (1997) established the foundation for a wider concept of the right of a person to be free from excessive state intervention. The reach breaking came the day the Supreme Court gave its historic ruling in Justice K.S. Puttaswamy v. In Union of India (2017), a nine-judge court bench said in a unanimous decision that privacy was a key right that was part of the right to life and personal freedom.

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Proceedings of the International Conference on Law and Technology (ICLT 2025)
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Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
26 December 2025
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978-2-38476-515-7
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2352-5398
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