New Delhi, Aug. 8 -- The Supreme Court on Friday said that the Right to Information Act must be harmonised with the protection of private digital data under the Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Act 2023. The court observed further that the Centre must spell out the criteria to determine violations under the digital privacy law. Hearing a batch of petitions challenging the 2023 amendment to the RTI Act that removed the public interest clause for disclosure of personal information, a bench led by CJI Surya Kant said, "We need to harmonise the RTI law and the DPDP Act as both are central statutes. The question therefore is whether there can be a blanket prohibition on disclosure of all digital personal information or we should adopt a p...