Legislative failure to draft privacy law in India

The right to privacy has been the recent issue in media and Supreme Court in relation to protection of private data of the individual. The Supreme Court at many time have saved the right to privacy of individual since decades and is continuing to do so. Here I have tries to laid emphasis upon the kind of privacy one need. Some people claim privacy right in the social media through protection of their data and protection from unusual interference in internet. The other kind of privacy is different from internet and is the social privacy right like the liberties enshrined under Article 19 and Article 21 of the Indian Constitution which talks about different freedoms and protection of life and personal liberty respectively. These includes reproductive rights, freedom from any kind of encroachment on one’s liberty like profession, way of living, moving from one place to another, etc. The main aim of my research is that even after the repeated efforts of the Judiciary to protect the right to privacy the Legislature have always failed to draft a proper law on the right to privacy and some of their failed efforts have also been discussed in the paper. The research also focus on what are those problems before the Indian Legislature which reserve them from making a law in relation to the protection of privacy and also the steps taken by the legislature to protect the private data of the individual. By this research we can also analyse what kind of privacy should be there and efforts should be made in future to give a precise shape to the right to privacy. The research paper concludes that if any law for the protection of privacy is to be drafted many other laws for the time being in force need to be changed and reviewed.