CENTRE FOR THE STUDY OF LAW AND GOVERNANCE
Jawaharlal Nehru University
SEMINAR SERIES
Associate Professor, Centre for the Study of Law and Governance, JNU
On
Balancing Individual Privacy and National Security: Constitutional Imperatives
Abstract
Does the Constitution of India subordinate the ‘right to privacy’ to ‘national security’? If so, does it mean that the State has an unfettered power to infringe privacy purportedly to protect national security? In pursuance of national security can the State order mass surveillance of individuals, in effect treating them all as suspects or as possible threat to national security? These are the central questions that the speaker seeks to examine in the light of the constitutional jurisprudence of right to privacy developed by the nine-judge bench of the Supreme Court in Justice K. S. Puttaswamy v. Union of India. The focus will be on the four fold test against which the validity of every privacy infringing measure adopted by the State needs to be tested.
3.00 pm, Friday, 3 December 2021
About the Speaker:
Dr. P. Puneeth is an Associate Professor of Law at the Centre for the Study of Law and Governance, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He has completed his education – B.A.LL.B (Five Year Integrated Course), LL.M. and Ph. D. – from Bangalore University, Bangalore, Karnataka.
Before joining the Centre, he was serving as Assistant Professor of Law in the Indian Law Institute (ILI) – the premier Institute for legal research and higher education in law in the country since 2006. He also served as a Member of the Board of Studies and the Academic Council of ILI. He had also been an Assistant Editor of the prestigious Journal of the Indian Law Institute. His teaching and research areas of interests are Constitution and Administrative Law, Judicial Process, Judicial Administration, Law and Justice in a Globalizing World, Human Rights and Criminal Law. His doctoral work was on the topic “Impact of Global Regulatory Regime on Indian Constitution: A Critical Study.” He is a regular contributor for the Annual Survey of Indian Law and also published papers in journals of national and international repute.
The Seminar will be held online via Google Meet
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