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Best of BS Opinion: Storm over social media, Covid-19 vaccination & more

Here are the best of Business Standard's opinion pieces for Thursday

coronavirus, covid-19, vaccine, vaccination
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Illustration: Binay Sinha

Rajesh Kumar New Delhi
WhatsApp has challenged the new social media intermediary rules in the Delhi High Court. It claims a provision, which forces service providers to identify “the first originator of information” in posts, is unconstitutional and violates privacy. On its part, the government was quick to clarify that it respected the "Right of Privacy" and had no intention to violate it. It also justified the new information technology rules by saying that no fundamental right, including the “Right of Privacy”, was absolute and was subject to reasonable restrictions. In this context, our lead editorial notes that the right of privacy may not be absolute

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