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Discuss the importance of personal data protection in the context of human rights.

  • UPSC 2019
  • 15 marks
  • Contemporary Global Concerns

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Article 12 of the UDHR (1948) and Article 17 of the ICCPR (1966) protect every person against arbitrary interference with privacy, family, home and correspondence. In a data-driven economy, personal information is a source of profit for firms and of power for states, so data protection has become the working form of the old right…

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