From sexual orientation to Aadhaar: 5 issues Right to Privacy may impact

Aadhaar aside, five issues could be affected by SC ruling on Right To Privacy

Freedom of sexual orientation, right to eat what one wants to, right to medically terminate a pregnancy, freedom to criticise the government and right to control dissemination of personal information in the physical and virtual world, are some of the issues that could be affected in later judgments after the Supreme Court ruled the right to privacy is a fundamental right under the Indian Constitution in a historic verdict on August 24, 2017. This is apart from its impact on Aadhaar, the government’s 12-digit biometric identification programme.

“The right to privacy is protected as an intrinsic