Right to Information (RTI) & Privacy: Congruent or Contradictory? Panel Discussion https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmOZLvR_mkI IMPRI Impact and Policy Research In
[Apar Gupta Puts the whole debate in the real context of the "state" growing frighteningly more and more authoritarian and the "individual" getting weaker and weaker.]
What has to be, in this context, kept in mind is that both "privacy" and "transparency" have two sides.
One, the right -- whether "transparency" or "privacy" -- of the "individual" vis-a-vis the "state" and vice versa.
Puttuswamy had filed his case in the context of the Aadhaar. Aadhar, it was apprehended, would make the "individual" unduly "transparent" to the "state".
This "individual" vis-a-vis the "state" aspect must be on top of our collective mind.
We've, as a rule, to strengthen the "individual" vis-a-vis the "state" -- whether in terms of the "right to know" or "the right to privacy".
That has got to be the bottom line.
Even then, if a conflict arises between the interests of a privileged individual and a commoner, then it's the latter we must bat for.