Secure Aadhaar data from misuse
Last week, the government proposed to tweak rules regarding Aadhaar to allow entities other than the government for identity verification, a report in this newspaper noted. However, in 2019, the government tweaked the Aadhaar Act to allow some private companies — telecom providers and financial institutions — to seek Aadhaar voluntarily. The scale, and the associated problems of privacy and protocol, do raise legitimate concerns around its misuse, especially if there is broader adoption without adequate recourse for affected citizens and a privacy law that will nudge organisations and agencies to protect better the Aadhaar data they will have access to. The government needs to lay down significantly higher standards of checks if it widens access to Aadhaar, which today is linked to an individual’s social, economic, and physical security.
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