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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Garamond,serif">Dear All, </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Garamond,serif"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Garamond,serif">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></span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><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/"><span style="font-size:11pt"> this infographic</span></a></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Garamond,serif"> 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><span style="font-family:Garamond,serif"><span></span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Garamond,serif">We have a detailed note on the background of the
case </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/"><span style="font-size:11pt">here</span></a></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Garamond,serif">. Our </span><span style="font-family:Garamond,serif"><a href="https://ccgnludelhi.wordpress.com/"><span style="font-size:11pt">blog</span></a></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Garamond,serif"> 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><span style="font-family:Garamond,serif"><a href="http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/lead/a-judgment-for-the-ages/article19409905.ece"><span style="font-size:11pt">here</span></a></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Garamond,serif">. </span><span style="font-family:Garamond,serif"><span></span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><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 this infographic to anyone
who might be interested in it. </span><span style="font-family:Garamond,serif"><span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Garamond,serif"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Garamond,serif">Best,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Garamond,serif">Chinmayi and Smitha</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Garamond,serif"><img src="cid:ii_j6bwfkon0_15ddfdcd7de8f5e7" width="460" height="2643" style="margin-right: 0px;"><br>​<br></span></p>

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