Privacy, a fundamental right the state must protect Updated: Updated: December 17, 2020 01:01 IST An open and transparent government that also respects every citizen’s right to privacy is not a contradiction Share Article AAA An open and transparent government that also respects every citizen’s right to privacy is not a contradiction In an article in The Hindu, Is a person’s address public information? (OpEd page, December 1, 2020), the writers, Shailesh Gandhi and Prashant Reddy T., raised a few issues over a recent Bombay High Court order directing the government to take down the address of a Right to Information (RTI) applicant from its website.