PANAJI: The Supreme Court's verdict decreeing that privacy was indeed fundamental right overturning earlier orders passed by the court has been welcomed by privacy advocates in Goa, who have however warned that this is only the first but important step.
"It is a huge judgement where the SC has overruled the government's right to surveillance and the government will not be able to justify such acts in the future," Samir Kelekar an IT professional who has been following the privacy debate closely has said.
"The challenge now is for rules of what information you can and what information you cannot collect," Kelekar said in reference to several companies especially tech companies who gather a lot of data.
"Data mining is the in thing nowadays and everyone wants to gather data and sell it to people who will use it to sell you things. Rules have to be made applicable against indiscriminate data mining," Kelekar said.
The debate will now focus on the Aadhaar debate with several persons in Goa who have been unwilling to readily part with their aadhaar details to telecom or bank companies eager on the fate of that case.
"The whole privacy debate rose because of Aadhaar. It needs to go or needs to be very highly diluted," Kelekar added.
"It is a huge judgement where the SC has overruled the government's right to surveillance and the government will not be able to justify such acts in the future," Samir Kelekar an IT professional who has been following the privacy debate closely has said.
"The challenge now is for rules of what information you can and what information you cannot collect," Kelekar said in reference to several companies especially tech companies who gather a lot of data.
"Data mining is the in thing nowadays and everyone wants to gather data and sell it to people who will use it to sell you things. Rules have to be made applicable against indiscriminate data mining," Kelekar said.
The debate will now focus on the Aadhaar debate with several persons in Goa who have been unwilling to readily part with their aadhaar details to telecom or bank companies eager on the fate of that case.
"The whole privacy debate rose because of Aadhaar. It needs to go or needs to be very highly diluted," Kelekar added.
