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With the Pegasus spyware episode still fresh in our minds, there’s another worrying development which has been reportedly confirmed by Google this week.

https://www.thequint.com/tech-and-auto/tech-news/android-phone-camera-app-allow-spying-record-video-security-risk-more

Google Says Android Phone Cameras Had a Flaw That Allowed Spying

Android phones are easy to hack, and app vulnerabilities pose serious concerns for the user these days. 

#Kashmir
Ahmadi : Restrictions under Art 19 must pass test of proportionality. The test is that measures taken have to be in order to meet a legitimate goal or suitable cause. The same must not have disproportionate impact.

The Hong Kong High Court today handed down an important judgment in which it held that the government's prohibition on the use of face masks by protesters was unconstitutional. The government's "law and order" arguments were flatly rejected. This is what happens when constitutional courts work the way they are supposed to - and it's possible, even in the most difficult and trying of circumstances, with an authoritarian government sitting on their head. An analysis:

https://indconlawphil.wordpress.com/2019/11/18/notes-from-a-foreign-field-the-hong-kong-high-courts-judgment-on-the-right-to-protest-with-face-masks/

Notes from a Foreign Field: The Hong Kong High Court’s Judgment on the Right to Protest (with Face Masks)

Indian Constitutional Law and Philosophy
Justice Nariman's dissent in the #sabarimala review, will long be cited, as a treatise on the Rule of Law and the Executive's sworn duty to uphold and implement court judgements. I urge all people to read it, as it rewards even those who have been sceptical about the court in the recent past
https://www.livelaw.in/top-stories/courts-should-tread-cautiously-while-dealing-with-religious-issues-149757
[Sabarimala] Courts Should Tread Cautiously While Dealing With Religious Issues: Read The Issues Referred To Larger Bench

While referring the Sabarimala case to larger bench, the majority judges observed that the matters involving the interpretation of the provisions of the Constitution touching upon the right to...

Some stuff to ward off ennui and despair for the young leftist. You are not alone and your worries are connected to a red thread of struggles spanning eons.

Today is (probably) a anniversary of a millennia old (recorded) first worker's strike. And it had worked.

This day around 3000 years back, year 29 of the reign of Ramses III, workers of Deir el-Medina conducted the first recorded strike