Privacy, the shield that protects or the sword that strikes freedom of speech?

Abstract

ABSTRACT The right of privacy after the judgement of the Supreme Court in Puttaswamy has been used as a means to restrict publication of private information of public officials by news media. This could lead to the stifling of free-speech rights of media. An appropriate balance would need to be struck between the normative values underlying these rights. On the one hand, protecting the dignity and autonomy of an individual, and on the other publishing information that is going to be in public interest.