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Aadhaar's Orwellian threat

The discussion on India begins with a fascinating analysis of how the Constituent Assembly debated including privacy as a fundamental right

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Vikram Johri New Delhi
Privacy 3.0
Unlocking Our Data-Driven Future
Rahul Matthan 
Harper Collins
224 pages 
Rs 599

In his new book, technology lawyer Rahul Matthan charts the growth of privacy jurisprudence in India, linking it to the spurt in Aadhaar usage under the current dispensation at the Centre. The tone is academic, with a generous sprinkling of anecdotes that enliven the discussion of what has become a serious global issue in our time.

Mr Matthan begins his treatise with an analysis of the history of privacy, not in the legal sense of the term but the very idea whose germination was closely associated with early man giving up a