Kumar, Alok Prasanna

Balancing privacy and accountability - Economic & Political Weekly - 60(34), Aug 23, 2025: p.10-12

Economic & Political Weekly
60(34), Aug 23, 2025: p.10-12
AR.NO. 137252

Kumar, Alok Prasanna

Balancing privacy and accountability



Transparency is an important form of accountability, but is facing pushback in the form of claims made relying on the right to privacy. The Election Commission of India’s recent use of the right to privacy to deny CCTV footage of polling and machine-readable electoral rolls has once again brought a seeming conflict between the right to privacy and transparency.- Reproduce

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