Intersection of Social Media and Right to Privacy

Vaishnavi Kumari

Abstract: As popularity of social media is rising, there has been a constant concern regarding the protection of the privacy. While using various social media platforms, the question triggers in the mind of many that, is their privacy really safeguarded? The social media platforms collect a vast amount of user data which is they further analyse and sell them illegally, which is a clear violation of the right to privacy, our privacy is our personal property which cannot be put on sale, just because we are on internet. It has been rightly said by marlo Brando that ?Privacy is not something that I am merely entitled to, its an absolute prerequisite?. So this paper tries to study the intersection of social media and right to privacy.

Keywords: privacy, social media, right