State Move to Collect Personal Data of School Students Blocked over Privacy Concerns: Madras High Court

The Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court has quashed a directive issued by the Tamil Nadu Education Department that required government-run Model Schools to collect sensitive personal and social background data from higher secondary school students. The Court held that such data collection violates the right to privacy of students and results in discrimination against children from vulnerable and stigmatic social backgrounds. Bench of the High Court The case…