"A courtroom drama over state surveillance in India took a striking turn when a Supreme Court judge suggested that people who live transparently should not be troubled by government monitoring.
The case involved allegations that Telangana’s state intelligence apparatus was used for political snooping, but the discussion soon widened into a philosophical clash over privacy and power.
Former Special Intelligence Bureau (SIB) chief T. Prabhakar Rao, accused of directing unlawful phone tapping during the previous BRS government, was before the bench as the State sought more time to keep him in police custody.
During the hearing, Justice B.V. Nagarathna questioned why citizens would object to being monitored at all, asking, “Now we live in an open world. Nobody is in a closed world. Nobody should be really bothered about surveillance. Why should anyone be bothered about surveillance unless they have something to hide?”
Her comment prompted Solicitor General Tushar Mehta to caution against normalizing government spying. He asked whether this meant “every government will have a free hand in putting people under surveillance,” warning that secret monitoring without authorization was unlawful and incompatible with basic freedoms.
Mehta reminded the bench that the Constitution, as affirmed in the landmark Puttaswamy ruling, enshrines privacy as part of human dignity and liberty."
https://reclaimthenet.org/indian-supreme-court-surveillance-nothing-to-hide
RE: https://tldr.nettime.org/@remixtures/115790846571931755
The same Indian judiciary regularly grants bails to hit-and-run murderers, (hint: rich dad), release rapists on bails and refuse to reveal their true assets in public. Just this year, an accidental fire in a judge home found millions in cash buried inside walls.
People can land in jail for simply acknowledging this on mainstream #socialmedia btw.