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Privacy is a state of a person, to be left undisturbed or unobserved by the public. Privacy has been mentioned in various National and International frameworks. Right to privacy has gained its importance because, privacy is considered to be a part of human life. In India, Privacy has been given the status of a Right recently and is enshrined under Art.21 of the Indian Constitution. Technology has sucked us into its sphere, whereby every human activity depends upon computerised skills. Violation of privacy has taken a gigantic figure after the emergence of technology. Some of the areas where privacy gets affected by technology involves electronic monitoring of people, intercepting emails, cyber hacking, cyber stalking, cyber pornography, cyber phishing, telephone tapping etc., Most of the cyber crimes that take place, involve the misuse of private details of individuals. This paper comprises the importance of privacy, growth of technology, different frameworks on Privacy and the ways in which technology affects privacy.