Freedom In The Age Of Surveillance: Re- Examining Nozick’s Minimal State
IJLLR Journal
Bhargav Naik, Bengaluru, Karnataka. ABSTACT This article examines the conflict between personal freedom and governmental monitoring in modern-day India. The paper critically investigates whether government systems like Aadhaar and facial- recognition technology comply with or transgress these boundaries, drawing on Robert Nozick's libertarian theory of the minimum state, whose only legal duty is to protect individuals from coercion, robbery, and fraud. Nozick's ideas of self-ownership,...