印度最高法院负责法治,阻止公众获取官员的数据,从而威胁透明度。 India's Supreme Court to rule on law that blocks public access to officials' data, threatening transparency.

印度最高法院准备审理对2023年《数字个人数据保护法》第44(3)条提出的质疑。 该法修正了《信息权法》,取消了个人数据披露的公共利益例外。 India’s Supreme Court is set to hear challenges to Section 44(3) of the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023, which amended the Right to Information Act by removing the public interest exception for personal data disclosure. 包括记者和透明度倡导者在内的请愿者认为,这一改变造成全面拒绝关于公职人员和政府行动的信息请求,破坏问责制,侵犯宪法规定的言论自由和透明度权利。 Petitioners, including journalists and transparency advocates, argue the change creates a blanket denial of information requests about public officials and government actions, undermining accountability and violating constitutional rights to free speech and transparency. 他们还批评赋予中央政府广泛的数据访问权,并批评对数据保护委员会独立性的关切。 They also criticize broad data access powers granted to the central government and concerns over the Data Protection Board’s independence. 此案自2025年11月以来一直悬而未决,2026年2月16日将由首席大法官Surya Kant主持审理。 The case, pending since November 2025, will be heard on February 16, 2026, by a bench led by Chief Justice Surya Kant.