THE POLITICAL MEANING OF PRIVACY AND IDENTITY

Abstract

In this interview, Usha Ramanathan analyses the history of the struggle against a unified identity system in India, the lessons learned from the process of political and legal mobilization and the limits of the decision in the Supreme Court of India, which is generally not fully understood in Brazil and Latin America. Usha also challenges the narrative that claims that the protection of personal data offers adequate solutions to contemporary problems of the violation of rights in the use of new technologies by the state and the private sector.