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Private and Controversial: When Privacy and Public Health Meet in India

by Smriti Parsheera
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9789356295049
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: HarperCollins India
  • Publisher Imprint: HarperCollins India
  • Publication Date: N/A
  • Pages: 428
  • Original Price: INR 699.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 372 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Privacy

The COVID-19 pandemic has illustrated how actions taken for the management of a public health emergency can bear significant implications for individual liberty, dignity and privacy. Collection of health data, contact tracing, mandatory testing, and vaccine passports are some examples of such interventions. However, these tensions are certainly not new. Nor are they limited to situations of health emergencies. The everyday interactions between the individual, the community, and the public health ecosystem raise a number of questions about how to balance the state's legitimate public health interests with the informational privacy, bodily integrity and decisional autonomy of citizens.

Parsheera, Smriti: - Smriti Parsheera is a lawyer and public policy researcher working on issues at the intersection of technology and society. She is currently the India Fellow at the CyberBRICS Project hosted by FGV Law School, Brazil, and a PhD candidate at the School of Public Policy, IIT Delhi. She has contributed to several research publications and conferences and written for She has contributed to several research publications and conferences and written for domestic and international media outlets including BBC World, Indian Express.

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