Justice K.S.Puttaswamy(Retd) vs Union Of India on 26 September, 2018
track trails and authentication records. It was asserted that there are tools in the market for track
back. The entire case was speculative and conjectural. In Clapper, Director of National Intelligence
v. Amnesty International USA, the majority judgment did not approve the submissions in the
context of Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act and one of the reason was that the allegations were
conjectural and speculative. There were no facts pleaded on the basis of which the asserted threat
could be fairly traced to. However, we have not deliberated on this argument. agriculture was the
prime source and the entire mankind was based on agriculture. 350 years later with the invention of
steam engines came the industrialized age and now what we are living through is the third gigantic
wave, which is way more powerful than industrialized age. An age that is based on knowledge.
Toffler emphasises that in todays society the only thing that leads to creation of wealth is knowledge.
Unlike the past wherein economics was described as the science of the allocation of scarce resources,
today we are primarily dependent on knowledge and that is not a scarce resource. Times are
changing, we can no longer trust the straight line projection. His view is that we are going from a
society which is more and more uniform to a highly de-massified society. Knowledge is power. We
are in the era of information. Probably what Toffler is hinting is that access to this vast reservoir of
information is available in digital world. Information is available online, at the touch of a button.
With this, however, we usher into the regime of data.
157) In a recent speech by Mr. Benjamin Netanyahu, Prime Minister of Israel, while talking about
innovation and entrepreneurship, he brought out an interesting phenomena in the world of free
market principles, i.e. in the era of globalisation, in the following words: Look at the ten leading
companies in 2006, five energy companies, one IT company Microsoft and a mere ten years later, in
2016, a blink of an eye, in historical terms, its completely reversed, five IT companies one energy
company left. The true wealth is in innovation - you know these companies - Apple, Google,
Microsoft, Amazon, Facebook.
158) He adds by making a significant statement as the reason behind this change:
...there is a reason something is going on, its a great change - you want to hear a
jargan its a one sentence, this is a terrible sentence, but I have no other way to say, its
a confluence of big data, connectivity and artificial intelligence. Ok, you get that? You
know what that does it revolutionises old industries and it creates entirely new
industries, so here is an old industry that Israel was always great in Agriculture. We
are always good in agriculture but now we have precision agriculture. You know what
that is? See that drone in the sky is connected to a big database and there is sensor at
the field and in the field there is drip irrigation and drip fertilization and now we can
target with this technology the water that we give, the fertilizer that we give down to
the individual plant that needs it. Thats precision agriculture, thats Israel.
Unbelievable.
159) This brings us to the world of data big data. It has its own advantages of tremendous nature. It
is making life of people easier. People can connect with each other even when they are located at
places far away from each other. Not only they can converse with each other but can even see each
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