{"id":1027300,"date":"2026-08-08T08:17:55","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T02:47:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1027300"},"modified":"2026-08-08T08:47:01","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T03:17:01","slug":"supreme-court-to-examine-privacy-shield-in-amended-rti-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/08\/supreme-court-to-examine-privacy-shield-in-amended-rti-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court to examine privacy shield in amended RTI law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday observed that it would have to examine whether parliament&#8217;s approach of expanding protection for personal information under the amended law satisfies constitutional standards. <\/p>\n<p>A three-member bench, comprising Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya Kant, Justices Joymalya Bagchi and V Mohana, observed that a balance ought to be struck between citizens&#8217; right to information and the fundamental right to privacy while examining changes made to the Right to Information (RTI) Act through the Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Act.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday observed that it would have to examine whether parliament&#8217;s approach of expanding protection for personal information under the amended law satisfies constitutional standards. A three-member bench, comprising Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya Kant, Justices Joymalya Bagchi and V Mohana, observed that a balance ought to be struck between citizens&#8217; right to information and the fundamental right to privacy while examining changes made to the Right to Information (RTI) Act through the Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Act.<\/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":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1027300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027300","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=1027300"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1027323,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027300\/revisions\/1027323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1027300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1027300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1027300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}