Neutral Citation Number: 2023:DHC:2806 individual’s right to control their existence on the internet. The following observation was made: ―629. The right of an individual to exercise control over his personal data and to be able to control his/her own life would also encompass his right to control his existence on the internet. Needless to say that this would not be an absolute right. The existence of such a right does not imply that a criminal can obliterate his past, but that there are variant degrees of mistakes, small and big, and it cannot be said that a person should be profiled to the nth extent for all and sundry to know.” 43. This right to privacy is also inextricably linked with the right to live a life with dignity. As noted in Section 66E of the IT Act as well, individuals have a reasonable expectation to privacy which is not lost within the confines of a domestic relationship, or even if any intimate image is shared with another person with the understanding and the expectation that the same will not be shared with third persons. The context in such situations matter with privacy being the expectation that information about an individual will be treated appropriately and in accordance with the individual’s expectations; it is the said individual who retains control over any information pertaining to themselves. As a corollary, if the individual has the right to informational privacy, it also subsumes the individual’s right to be forgotten which has been held to be the consequence of the dignity of an individual and, thus, a facet of the right to privacy. 44. A Division Bench of the Kerala High Court has recently in Vysakh K.G. v. Union of India and Ors., 2022 SCC OnLine Ker 7337, while adjudicating upon right to privacy vis-à-vis right to information, referred to Cécile de Terwangne’s paper on “Internet Privacy and Right to be Signature Not Verified Digitally Signed By:SHAZAAD ZAKIR Signing Date:26.04.2023 17:19:50 W.P.(CRL) 1505/2021 Page 68 of 88