Incidental Exposure In The Digital Commons: Crowd-Sourced Cartography, Uninformed Photo Contribution, And The Unresolved Privacy Crisis On Google Maps In India: A Legal Commentary
IJLLR Journal
Mukti Jain, Alliance University ABSTRACT India hosts one of the world's largest and fastest-growing populations of internet users. Yet explosive connectivity has not been matched by an equally explosive growth in digital literacy. This commentary examines a phenomenon that sits at the intersection of platform design, user ignorance, and regulatory inadequacy: the accidental public exposure of private residences and intimate family imagery through crowd-sourced contributions to Google Maps....