The Privacy Paradox: A Doctrinal Evaluation Of The DPDP Act’s Chilling Effect On The Right To Information Under Article 19(1)(A)
IJLLR Journal
Divyanshu Bhardwaj, PhD Scholar at CSJMU, Kanpur ABSTRACT The conflict between the ideas of democratic transparency and informational privacy has become the most complicated constitutional paradox in the modern Indian jurisprudence. This paper is a comprehensive doctrinal analysis of the friction created by the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023, and especially its highly consequential amendment of the Right to Information Act, 2005, Section 8(1)(j). The RTI Act initially carefully...