“The general mood on the PDP [Personal Data Protection] Bill is that this [privacy] is something we are giving you as a favour. This government is very far removed from the basic idea that privacy is something that is fundamental to your being. They are treating privacy as a luxury," Trinamool Congress MP Mahua Moitra said during a conversation with journalist Faye D'Souza on Monday. She was speaking at an event organised by the Internet Freedom Foundation to mark the third anniversary of the landmark right to privacy judgement. On how right to privacy must not and cannot be traded for other rights, even during a pandemic: “Every dictatorial, majoritarian regime since time immemorial has used that excuse. … The two are not mutually exclusive. Just because I need care during a pandemic doesn’t mean I have got to give up every right that is fundamentally guaranteed to me by the constitution. This is a very fundamental truth that all of us have to understand and fight for. … It is not mutually exclusive. When people in the villages ask me this, I use one example — ‘Is it fair of someone to make you choose between your wife and your mother?’ — because you need to make people understand that you don’t need to give up one love the other more,” she said. 'Government must safeguard people's privacy' On government’s prerogative to safeguard citizens’ privacy: “There is a great divide between the rich and the poor, between the educated…
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‘Privacy is a fundamental right that cannot be traded for other rights,’ says TMC MP Mahua Moitra
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