Section 25 (a) of the Data Protection Act further mandates individuals to ensure that for every personal data processed, collected, or shared, it is done so in line with the right to privacy of the data owner. One may argue that posting information on social media is either making the data public or consenting to the collection of such data from another source. The question then would be, do these rights end the moment the data owner on their own volition shares their data publicly? Another question to ponder is whether one can still share data that was made public by the data owner even after the owner has objected to such. Despite the murkiness of data privacy and social media, it is hard to argue that any data shared publicly by the owner on social media warrants protection as private data.

Source: The Star August 28, 2020 00:22 UTC