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EDITORIALRIGHT TO PRIVACY AND DIGITAL SURVEILLANCE

A Right Built for One Actor, a Harm Spread Across Four: Security Tools vs a Privacy Chain No One Owns

Three developments have converged: a petition by Rajya Sabha member A.A. Rahim challenging the Delhi Police's alleged use of facial recognition and biometric surveillance during the Cockroach Janta Party protests, the Supreme Court's disposal of a PIL on doxxing and deepfakes with directions to Union Ministries and the Court's May 2026 decision upholding the Election Commission's Special Intensive Revision. Read together…

Sub TopicCHAIN-OF-EXPOSURE PRIVACY - STATE SURVEILLANCE, PRIVATE…SourceTHE HINDU, PRS INDIA, SUPREME…
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EDITORIALFEDERALISM - STATEHOOD FOR JAMMU AND KASHMIR

Two Steps Done, One Withheld: When Security Caution Meets a Promise the Voters Have Kept

The J&K Assembly's resolution of September 28, 2026 is the first formal Statehood demand by the House since the 2024 elections, backed by the ruling alliance and opposition parties alike, except the BJP. It revives the question of when the Union Territory arrangement created by the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Act, 2019 will end, given the Supreme Court's 2023 direction and the Centre's own stated sequence.

Sub TopicRESTORATION OF STATEHOOD - SECURITY CAUTION VS…SourceTHE HINDU, DD NEWS, NEWS ON AIR…
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