{"id":1025802,"date":"2026-08-03T08:56:59","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T03:26:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1025802"},"modified":"2026-08-03T09:55:17","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T04:25:17","slug":"the-consent-that-was-not-paradox-of-digital-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/03\/the-consent-that-was-not-paradox-of-digital-world\/","title":{"rendered":"The consent that was not: Paradox of digital world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 2017, the Supreme Court\u2019s judgment in KS Puttaswamy v. Union of India established that privacy was not a privilege granted by the State, but rather an intrinsic dimension of human dignity. The enactment of the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 was held as a deliverance to that constitutional promise. At its core lay consent; an idea that individuals should meaningfully decide how their personal data is collected, processed, and used.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2017, the Supreme Court\u2019s judgment in KS Puttaswamy v. Union of India established that privacy was not a privilege granted by the State, but rather an intrinsic dimension of human dignity. The enactment of the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 was held as a deliverance to that constitutional promise. At its core lay consent; an idea that individuals should meaningfully decide how their personal data is collected, processed, and used.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,4,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1025802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-pioneer","category-newspapers","category-the-pioneer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1025802"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1025808,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025802\/revisions\/1025808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1025802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1025802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1025802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}