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Human beings have a natural need to autonomy or control over confidential part of their. This need is inherent in human behaviour and now this has been recognized as fundamental right to privacy in various countries as USA, UK and India. In global era, various International organisations UDHR, ICCPR, ECHR has adopted this right as fundamental Right. At the starting of Internet age, digital world has brought forward far more new challenges. One of the key challenges in the digital world is trying to protect your privacy, from the deviltry eyes of the state and non-state entities. Hence, the relevance of privacy and its protection becomes far more topical in the context of digital ecosystem in India.The Supreme Court of India has asserted that in order to treat a right to privacy as a fundamental right, it is not necessary that it should be expressly stated in the constitution as a Fundamental Right. Political, social, and economic changes in the country encompass the recognition of new rights. Law will change according to its social transformation. Right to privacy is one amongst such right which has emerged after enlarge the area of Article 21. However, such a right has been guaranteed by the Supreme Court under Art. 21 and several other provisions of the constitution read with the Directive Principles of State Policy. The study of right to life is indeed a study of the Supreme Court as a guardian of fundamental human rights. Article 21 is the celebrity provision of the Indian Constitution and occupies a unique place as a fundamental right. It is not only a right against physical restrains but it is also a right against psychological restrain or encroachment of right. It guarantees right to life and personal liberty to citizens and aliens and is enforceable against the State. The new interpretation of Article 21 in Maneka Gandhi’s (1978) case has introduce oneself a new era of amplitude of the horizons of right to life and personal liberty. The wide dimension given to this right now covers various aspects which the founding fathers of the Constitution might or might not have visualized.