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Is Srikrishna Committee going to balance rights to information and privacy?

If the phrase 'privacy' is deleted from RTI Act, it saves the legislation from some of the complexities but that doesn't mean that the right to privacy would no longer apply in the context of RTI Act

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Prashant Reddy T | The Wire
After several weeks of speculation regarding the recommendations of the committee of experts on data protection, headed by Justice B N Srikrishna, it appears that a copy of the committee’s proposed legislation has finally leaked to the Caravan. One of the issues covered by the Caravan, in its report on the draft Bill, is the recommendation of the expert committee to amend the Right to Information Act, 2005. As per the Caravan’s reporting, the committee has recommended amending the existing Section 8(1)(j) of the RTI Act in a manner that supposedly tilts the law in favour of

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