Aadhaar Card Holders Data Leaked: Government admitted in the Supreme Court

[Rohit S. Ambani]

 

Arguing for the government, advocate Arghya Sengupta told a bench led by Justice A K Sikri that the leakage was by various other government departments and state agencies. Some IDs were issued in the names of ‘Hanuman’ and 'dogs'. Sengupta was defending the government’s new law that makes Aadhaar mandatory for having PAN cards and also for filing Income Tax returns. Tomorrow, we may replace PAN with Aadhaar if such a need arises.

 

Senior lawyer Shyam Divan, rebutted Sengupta’s argument, saying it was not enough for the Centre to say that UIDAI was not leaking data. “In the eyes of citizen, all state authorities are State anyway,”. “This scheme makes whole-time surveillance – from cradle to the grave – possible. This is perhaps the worst project possible under our Constitution. Entire architecture of Aadhaar is worthless as far as information security is concerned. We are concerned with one-seventh of the total population of the world in the wake of a scheme where degree of invasion is extremely high and protection much low,” said Divan.

 

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[Rohit S. Ambani]

Your IRIS scan and fingerprints are on sale.

 

Thank GOD I resisted Aadhaar so far.