The Calcutta High Court has recently held that the right to privacy of a biological parent, especially an unwed mother who gave up her child for adoption and subsequently went untraceable, would.
Any legal framework to tackle deepfakes must be sensitive to the burdens that women and other minorities disproportionately bear to access the benefits of publicity
Indeed, the Government’s case is that the donor’s right to privacy over-rides the voter’s right to know, even if in protecting that privacy, the state gives itself an exemption.
“Political self-expression, either through voting or donations to one’s preferred party or candidate lies at the heart of the zone of privacy which the government is constitutionally obligated to respect,” Mehta stated in a 123-page note submitted to the Court.