Society & Economicsarticle2026-08-31

Artificial Intelligence in Legal Services and the Constitutional Right to Privacy: An Analysis of India's Current Emerging Challenges and Obstacles

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Abstract: The overwhelming application of artificial-intelligence (AI) into India’s Law community shows outstanding performance, changing the power and functions like law research, comparative analysis and various contractual obligations. However, these interferences brought terrifying disturbances into the field of privacy-data protection in India. Authors tried to brief the risk attached with AI involved in privacy-data protection in India’s law services. Recently India implemented DPDP Act to protect data. The application of AI tool results 96 % of accuracy in final decision by court in number of cases. No doubt AI-relating tools like natural language processing, machine learning algorithms, and pre analysis are transforming legal research by bringing more efficiency, greater accuracy and easy accessibility. Author examines impact of AI over legal research; it should follow ethical as well as privacy-data protection challenges. Privacy right always related to protection of data and now a days it is very difficult to achieve it because of lack of strong law protection. Formerly privacy not mentioned under fundamental right but Supreme Court gives Fundamental status from Puttaswamy Judgment. Now a day it is common to heard many violations of privacy rights in Indian legal services in the hands of AI. These allegations brought before the court of law in which courts providing guidelines and rules to eradicate the problems.

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View paper (DOI)Open access versionOpenAlexZenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)Published 2026-08-31

Authors: Nandkishor B. Bhandari, Margavi Dongre

Institutions: Chandra Shekhar Azad University of Agriculture and Technology, Fundació Privada Centre CIM