Balancing surveillance and privacy rights: A constitutional study of the digital era in Pakistan

Abstract

Rapid technological advancements in surveillance in the digital age have primarily transformed the collection, analysis and use of data by governments, corporations and individuals. Whereas these advancements enrich security and efficiency, they also pose substantial risks to privacy, sovereignty, and civil liberties. The introduction of digital technology over the constitutional system of Pakistan generated the necessary changes in the justice practice by developing new benefits and, at the same time, requiring the essential moral solutions to the complex problems. This research investigates Pakistan’s digital constitutional era through an ethical and legal technological framework that investigates constitutional protections and judicial supervision of developing balancing surveillance of legislation.