{"id":992535,"date":"2026-02-16T08:54:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T03:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=992535"},"modified":"2026-02-16T09:24:24","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T03:54:24","slug":"karnataka-rti-activist-challenges-data-protection-law-in-sc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/16\/karnataka-rti-activist-challenges-data-protection-law-in-sc\/","title":{"rendered":"Karnataka RTI activist challenges data protection law in SC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Bengaluru-based Right to Information (RTI) activist has approached the Supreme Court, challenging provisions of the data protection framework, arguing that recent changes could undermine transparency and accountability in governance. <\/p>\n<p>Venkatesh Nayak, also Director of the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI), has filed the petition in his personal capacity, seeking a judicial review of certain provisions of the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 and related rules notified in 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Bengaluru-based Right to Information (RTI) activist has approached the Supreme Court, challenging provisions of the data protection framework, arguing that recent changes could undermine transparency and accountability in governance. Venkatesh Nayak, also Director of the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI), has filed the petition in his personal capacity, seeking a judicial review of certain provisions of the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 and related rules notified in 2025.<\/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":[75,4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-992535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-new-indian-express","category-newspapers","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/992535","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=992535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/992535\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=992535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=992535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=992535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}