<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Garamond,serif"><font color="#000000">Dear All, </font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Garamond,serif"><font color="#000000"><br></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Garamond,serif"><font color="#000000">You may already have heard that the right to privacy was recently questioned before the Indian Supreme Court. The judges will soon rule on whether it exists and how far it stretches.<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px;text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:Garamond,serif"><font color="#000000">                       <span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px;text-align:justify"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Garamond,serif">In preparation for the judgment, we have put together</span><span style="font-family:Garamond,serif"><a href="https://ccgnludelhi.wordpress.com/2017/08/13/h/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>this infographic</span></a></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Garamond,serif"><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>based on our dataset of Supreme Court cases that have upheld the right to privacy over the last 63 years. This is to illustrate how rich our privacy jurisprudence has been over these decades.<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family:Garamond,serif"></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px;text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:Garamond,serif"><font color="#000000"> </font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px;text-align:justify"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Garamond,serif">We have a detailed note on the background of the case<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family:Garamond,serif"><a href="https://ccgnludelhi.wordpress.com/2017/07/18/sc-constitution-bench-on-aadhaar-and-the-fundamental-right-to-privacy-day-1/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11pt">here</span></a></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Garamond,serif">. Our<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family:Garamond,serif"><a href="https://ccgnludelhi.wordpress.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11pt">blog</span></a></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Garamond,serif"><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>also summarises the arguments made during the hearings. Our comments on the questions being asked and the challenge before the Supreme Court are available<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family:Garamond,serif"><a href="http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/lead/a-judgment-for-the-ages/article19409905.ece" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11pt">here</span></a></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Garamond,serif">.<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family:Garamond,serif"></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px;text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:Garamond,serif"><font color="#000000"> </font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px;text-align:justify"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Garamond,serif">We welcome your feedback and any questions that you might have about the dataset. Please do circulate the infographic to anyone who might be interested in it.<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family:Garamond,serif"></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px;text-align:justify"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Garamond,serif"><br></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px;text-align:justify"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Garamond,serif">Best,</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px;text-align:justify"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Garamond,serif">Chinmayi and Smitha</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px;text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:Garamond,serif"><font color="#000000"> PS: </font></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Garamond,serif;font-size:14.6667px">The attachments were too heavy for these mailing lists but we will be happy to share the infographic </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Garamond,serif;font-size:14.6667px">with you</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Garamond,serif;font-size:14.6667px"> in pdf and high definition formats if you write to us.</span></p></div>