Gaurakshaks and data privacy

There have been multiple lynchings of persons supposedly on the suspicion that they have eaten beef. Sooner or later, we'll see privacy case law created on this account

A few weeks ago, at a conference on data privacy, I outlined a semi-hypothetical situation. Suppose the digital records of a food delivery are leaked. (This has actually happened several times). If that food delivery service delivers in cities such as Kolkata, Bengaluru, Kochi or Shillong, it will include plenty of customers who have ordered beef fry, tenderloin steak, or beef stroganoff.

Now suppose, just suppose, a tech-savvy gaurakshak happens to scan those records. Apart from picking up saved credit card data, the gaurakshak will also obtain data such as home addresses, mobile numbers, etc., for those beef-eating sybarites. 

It is possible