Right to privacy: Data shows states using Aadhaar to build profiles of citizens
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Right to privacy: Data shows states using Aadhaar to build profiles of citizens

Hindustan Times  

Fifteen minutes into a press conference on the landmark Supreme Court judgment guaranteeing privacy of individuals, Union law minister Ravi Shankar Prasad held up his Aadhaar card. Privacy rights advocates say the government can use the Aadhaar data to re-construct a 360-degree profile of an individual “It does not contain my father’s name, my educational qualifications, a record of my diseases, my income, my religion, my community or any other thing by which I can be identified,” Prasad said. “It works on a fine principle of minimum information, maximum use.” Yet, a review of government presentations and tender documents suggests that state governments are already using Aadhaar to build citizen databases that can collate all these data in a matter of minutes. “By linking privacy to all fundamental rights, this judgment broadens the scope of all these rights.” The Unique Identification Authority of India insists the controversial Aadhaar project does not intrude upon the privacy of 1.1 billion Indians whose biometric and demographic information is stored on its servers. Neighbour Andhra Pradesh has also built an Aadhaar-enabled digital People’s Hub that uses Aadhaar to integrate information from every government department for “getting a 360-degree view of citizens”.

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