“The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.” – William Gibson, Neuromancer (1984). Regarded as the earliest and best-known works in the cyberpunk genre, through...
Published On: 08/10/2018
Practice Area: Government & Regulatory, Technology, Media & Telecommunications
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At the end of September, the Supreme Court of India upheld the validity of the Aadhaar Act, 2016 to the extent it related to using an individual's Aadhaar number for receipt of subsidy, benefit or service from the Government and funded from the Consolidated Fund of India, while striking down provisions which allowed private entities to use an individual's Aadhaar number for any purpose. INDUSLAW's Namita Viswanath and Savithran Ramesh highlight the key takeaways from the judgement.
