{"id":1910,"date":"2023-02-04T06:15:06","date_gmt":"2023-02-04T06:15:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dehadrai.in\/?page_id=1910"},"modified":"2023-02-06T05:34:47","modified_gmt":"2023-02-06T05:34:47","slug":"case-against-live-streaming-of-classroom-footage-privacy-and-constitutional-law","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dehadrai.in\/index.php\/case-against-live-streaming-of-classroom-footage-privacy-and-constitutional-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Case against live-streaming of classroom footage (Privacy and Constitutional Law)"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"1910\" class=\"elementor elementor-1910\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"has_eae_slider elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-e671f84 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"e671f84\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"has_eae_slider elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-930a90f\" data-id=\"930a90f\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"has_eae_slider elementor-section elementor-inner-section elementor-element elementor-element-0bbc6e7 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"0bbc6e7\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"has_eae_slider elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-inner-column elementor-element elementor-element-9831cde\" data-id=\"9831cde\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-00e2885 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"00e2885\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.10.2 - 29-01-2023 *\/\n.elementor-heading-title{padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title[class*=elementor-size-]>a{color:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-small{font-size:15px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-medium{font-size:19px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-large{font-size:29px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-xl{font-size:39px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-xxl{font-size:59px}<\/style><h3 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Case against live-streaming of classroom footage (Privacy and Constitutional Law)<\/h3>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-bd1ed82 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"bd1ed82\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.10.2 - 29-01-2023 *\/\n.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-stacked .elementor-drop-cap{background-color:#818a91;color:#fff}.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-framed .elementor-drop-cap{color:#818a91;border:3px solid;background-color:transparent}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap{margin-top:8px}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap-letter{width:1em;height:1em}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap{float:left;text-align:center;line-height:1;font-size:50px}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap-letter{display:inline-block}<\/style>\t\t\t\t<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newindianexpress.com\/cities\/delhi\/2022\/feb\/22\/hc-asks-delhi-government-to-respond-to-plea-challenging-decision-to-install-cctv-cameras-in-classroo-2422550.html\">We are representing<\/a>, pro bono, the Delhi Parents Association and the Government School Teacher\u2019s Association, in a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) before the Delhi High Court.<\/p><p>This is a writ petition challenging the Delhi Education Department\u2019s decision to live stream video footage of children and teachers to outsiders, <a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/cities\/delhi\/installation-of-cctvs-in-classrooms-without-consent-violates-right-to-privacy-pil-before-delhi-hc-7785982\/\">without obtaining consent<\/a>.<\/p><p>The Education Department, without any scientific research to study the impact of constant surveillance on young children, hurriedly decided to install 149,000 cameras inside thousands of classrooms in Delhi. We succeeded in having the case admitted for hearing on 22<sup>nd<\/sup>\u00a0February 2021<a href=\"https:\/\/dehadrai.in\/index.php\/2023\/02\/03\/6-case-against-live-streaming-of-classroom-footage-privacy-and-constitutional-law\/#_ftn1\">[1]<\/a> and the next date of hearing, in this case, is 30<sup>th<\/sup> March 2022.<\/p><p>Our case concerns \u2018the right to privacy\u2019 of both, children and teachers, to not have their day broadcast to outsiders,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/city\/delhi\/parents-can-now-access-cctv-feed-from-govt-schools\/articleshow\/89672979.cms\">especially in the absence of a data protection regime in India<\/a>.<\/p><p>Furthermore, the right to privacy was upheld as a fundamental right under the Indian Constitution by the Supreme Court in a landmark 9-bench decision by K. Puttaswamy in 2017.<\/p><p>This case will be crucial to widening privacy jurisprudence in India by making \u2018consent\u2019 a necessary precondition for non-security related surveillance.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Case against live-streaming of classroom footage (Privacy and Constitutional Law) We are representing, pro bono, the Delhi Parents Association and the Government School Teacher\u2019s Association, in a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) before the Delhi High Court. This is a writ petition challenging the Delhi Education Department\u2019s decision to live stream video footage of children and &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/dehadrai.in\/index.php\/case-against-live-streaming-of-classroom-footage-privacy-and-constitutional-law\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Case against live-streaming of classroom footage (Privacy and Constitutional Law)<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"no-sidebar","site-content-layout":"page-builder","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"disabled","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"disabled","ast-featured-img":"disabled","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1910","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dehadrai.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dehadrai.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dehadrai.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dehadrai.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dehadrai.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1910"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/dehadrai.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2210,"href":"https:\/\/dehadrai.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1910\/revisions\/2210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dehadrai.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}