Frankly whether we agree or not, nearly all the government's are actively spying on it's citizens.. Buzzwords like Right to Privacy is just like that only a buzzword. So , if a government needs someone's data, they will somehow take it.
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#162Earlier quoted context omitted.
And I would hope that a respectable court would consider sexual acts to be acts of expression between parties, which is a protected right.
Free speech (expression is not in the Constitution) is not predicated on consent. If sex is a protected act of expression, than so is any kind of physical assault.
There’s definitely a consent factor to exercising your free speech rights. For example, you cannot loiter on my sidewalk at 2 AM expressing your free speech rights with a megaphone, since that would constitute harassment or breach of the peace, unless the neighborhood consented to hearing it.
Assault is a crime of violence; I think you’re looking for Battery as the comparison. Lack of consent is indeed one of the elements of Battery.
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#163In 2014 Modi campaign promised honest/progressive govt.
Now,
50% ministers in his cabinet are facing corruption/criminal charges in courts
fulfilled just 9% poll promises http://www.electionpromisestracker.in/governments/central-government
and utter contempt for truth and knowledge https://www.huffingtonpost.in/entry/smriti-irani-to-sharad-yadav-8-most-bizarre-statements-from-politicians-in-2018_in_5c18d2dfe4b08db990575cfcRe: Indian government to intercept, monitor, and decrypt citizens’ computers
#164As someone on /r/sysadmin has correctly remarked - if you are outsourcing to India, you should assume that all data they have access to it is now also freely accessible to the Indian government.
All the agencies mentioned in the article are related to anti-terrorism, Investigations and Tax department. They could get any data previously too, with warrant but now they can track you without warrant.
It doesn't means anything for normal IT work .
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#165First, it was Aadhaar and now this. Somehow Indian Govt wants to track every citizen and build their dictatorship.
> build their dictatorship. I highly doubt any Indian government wants or even thinks they can do this. India in all its diversity, consists of a huge number of separate factions. The Government only works due to a mutual compromise from enough factions to form a coalition. Also, the Indian judiciary and parliament hold genuine power and exercise it too. It is nearly impossible for a single person to gain enough mome…
lol
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Majority of the people in India are too busy making ends meet to know or care. This may change as the relatively more educated/affluent younger generations replace the older ones, but for now there are other bigger problems on everyone's minds. Of course govts all over the world use precisely this strategy to push through draconian laws... if the people aren't too stressed out/distracted to care, the evergreen excuse…
> This issue will go almost unnoticed except by the techically aware minority, just as the wholesale decimation of India's environment by the current govt is also going unnoticed except by the small 'green' minority. Would you care to expound to here? The last I checked this government has done more on renewable energy front than any other government.
In general "the renewable energy front" is also a kind of populism. I would strongly prefer my government to invest in nuclear power plants maintenance, upgrading and building and in research in the nuclear area than in what is generally considered renewable.
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#167If you want to see where the USA will be politically in 10 years look no further than China and India with these draconian policies. We are in competition with them.
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Spreading FUD about India?
No,stating opinions based on factual information on the present Indian govt.
"Current Indian govt headed by right wing political party with track record of human rights abuses have passed this order without passing through Parliament using a loop hole in the IT ACT". It's your opinion without any fact. The law was introduced by UPA.https://m.hindustantimes.com/india-news/in-arun-jaitley-s-st...
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#169This will be an unpopular opinion, but I personally like highly oppressive and intrusive governments trying to impose their will on the internet and technology. Usually when this happens, it results in substantial innovation around privacy, security and awareness. Such movements will ultimately force many people underground and into various forms of VPN's, non standard operating systems and custom hardware. To be cle…
This is why I don't like laws like these. They're utterly ineffective at their stated goals. The targets are largely unaffected. However, the average person is affected. And can be deeply affected.
I would add that it aids criminals. Devious minds will adapt and work around such invasive laws. (excluding lazy criminals of course) The average person will not even research this. The end result will be petabytes of citizen data sitting on some government servers or amazon S3 buckets that will end up on the black market.
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Well, the alternative is to be an originalist, trying to determine what a bunch of dead white guys in the 16th century -meant- when they wrote it, which is big in a number of conservative circles, and amongst a number of conservative justices. Personally, I find that an unhelpful approach because the world, and yes, society, change. But it -can- be a helpful guiding star. Those who don't learn from history, etc; well…
> [...] trying to determine what a bunch of dead white guys in the 16th century -meant- when they wrote it You are two centuries too early. (I agree with your post overall.)
Right, 18th. Forgot it's the number ahead, not behind.