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Privacy vs. Surveillance: Location-Sharing as a Bail Condition Deemed Unconstitutional
The Punjab & Haryana High Court has struck down the practice of requiring an accused to continuously share their live Google Maps location as a bail condition. The Court held this to be an excessive and disproportionate infringement of the fundamental right to privacy under Article 21. Calling the practice a form of "virtual confinement," the judgment emphasized that any restriction on a fundamental right must be reasonable and satisfy the test of proportionality

Chintan Shah
Jul 153 min read
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