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After Facebook acquired WhatsApp in 2014, WhatsApp's new data sharing policy was challenged in the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court had to decide if the right to privacy could be enforced against private entities. [4] A three-judge bench first heard the legal challenge to the AADHAR law.
The Supreme Court has upheld the validity of the Aadhaar document but with modifications. The unique identity number will now not be needed for opening bank accounts, admissions in schools or for ...
How can this awfully wrong program roll out without a clear legislation?", Justice K.S. Puttaswamy filed the PIL for scrapping the Aadhar project in 2012. [10] On 24 August 2017, a nine judge bench of the Supreme Court of India in a remarkable and wide ranging 547-page judgment [ 11 ] ruled unanimously that privacy is a constitutionally ...
The Court also referred the petitions claiming Aadhaar was unconstitutional to a Constitutional Bench. [159] On 19 July 2017, a nine-judge bench of the Supreme Court began hearing the arguments on whether there is a fundamental right to privacy. [160]
The Clause 33 (1) states that a District Judge or higher court may force the UIDAI to reveal a person's identity information, i.e. Aadhaar number, photograph and demographic information, and authentication records, but not the core biometric information.
The court linked that right to the 14th Amendment’s due process clause; essentially, that there was a constitutional right for employers and employees to set their own terms of employment.
In view of this crucial constitutional question, it has been suggested that the Supreme Court in Jairam Ramesh v. Union of India should create a constitution bench of at least nine judges to settle the law on this issue. [8] The five judge bench decided that the Aadhar Bill was a Money Bill by a vote of 4–1.
Taiwan’s Judicial Office Building, which houses the Constitutional Court that will hear arguments on the constitutionality of a package of controversial amendments passed by the legislature.