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India: New laws needed to protect citizens from invasive profiling

Geethanjali Jujjavarapu, NALSAR University of Law
PUBLISHED ON: 21 Feb 2017

There is an increase in the Orwellian nature of schemes and programmes being launched in India, in spite of the absence of concrete privacy and data protection laws. While a major step towards mass surveillance was taken a few years ago in the form of “Aadhaar”, the central and state governments have subsequently adopted schemes which involve