Legal experts highlight important privacy issues in the wake of Radio-Canada’s story on the use of data-extracting tools on government-issued phones and computers.

They enshrined the idea of “the right to be let alone”. This put forward privacy as a value for states around the world to uphold. In particular, privacy law was brought to bear on matters of sex.

The Madras high court on Tuesday said the fundamental right to privacy is not absolute and that the state has to prevent social harm, as it dismissed petitions challenging the Tamil Nadu Online ...