"The judgement exempts national security, crime detection and social benefits from the purview of privacy," Jaitley said. They are only illustrative," he added.He asserted that steps taken by the government to augment revenue realisation cannot be restricted in the name of privacy. Now privacy has been added to transparency and hence keeping personal things secret has become a fundamental right ," he said. The question is how to balance transparency and privacy. "He said government has introduced the bill to amend the Prevention of Corruption Act in the Parliament , which is yet to be passed.

Source: Times of India September 01, 2017 21:11 UTC