Lawstreet Journal

Sharing Citizens' Health Data Without Their Informed Consent Infringes Right to Privacy Under Article 21 : Karnataka HC in 'Aarogya Setu' Case [READ ORDER]

Lawstreet Journal 30 Jan 2021 1:30am

Image courtesy: Lawstreet Journal Judiciary Sharing Citizens' Health Data Without Their Informed Consent Infringes Right to Privacy Under Article 21 : Karnataka HC in 'Aarogya Setu' Case [READ ORDER]

The Karnataka High Court, in its interim order restraining the Government of India and National Informatics Centre (NIC) from sharing the response data of users of Aarogya Setu app, observed that sharing of health data of citizens without their informed consent will violate right to privacy under Article 21 of the Constitution.

Accordingly, the court passed an interim orderr to restrain the Central Government and the National Informatics Centre(NIC) from sharing the response data given by an individual in the 'Aarogya Setu' app with other government departments and agencies, without obtaining informed consent of the users.

The court examined the additional affidavit filed by the Central government in which mention of the order dated 11th May, 2020 issued by the Chairperson, Empowered Group on Technology and Data Management by which, the Aarogya Setu Data Access and Knowledge Sharing Protocol 2020 has been introduced.

The Court has given liberty to the Centre to seek vacation of the order by filing an affidavit showing that informed consent of users for sharing theresponse data has been obtained.

 

[READ ORDER]

Continue Reading...

Tagged: Aarogya Setu App  
Disclaimer: SoOLEGAL in Media collaboration with Lawstreet Journal. SoOLEGAL take no responsbility for the content provided by Lawstreet Journal. For any discrepancies Contact Lawstreet Journal.
Did you find this write up useful? YES 0 NO 0
×

C2RMTo Know More

Something Awesome Is In The Work

0

DAYS

0

HOURS

0

MINUTES

0

SECONDS

Sign-up and we will notify you of our launch.
We’ll also give some discount for your effort :)

* We won’t use your email for spam, just to notify you of our launch.
×

SAARTHTo Know More

Launching Soon : SAARTH, your complete client, case, practise & document management SAAS application with direct client chat feature.

If you want to know more give us a Call at :+91 98109 29455 or Mail info@soolegal.com