India’s data regime has been shaped by fundamentally contradictory imaginaries —privacy as a right, data as a national asset, and consent as a governance fiction. The right to information and the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, despite appearing antagonistic, are unified by a deeper misdiagnosis: both treat privacy and information as juridical categories rather than as products of India’s platformised governance architecture. 

As the Right to Information (RTI) Act, 2005........

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