American whistleblower Edward Snowden has cash inward one's chips the latest to heighten alert nigh the vulnerability of the Aadhaar database, a 24-hour interval afterward the Tribune paper reported that an administrator login ID in addition to password to gain access to the UID portal could move acquired for every moment petty every moment Rs 500.
He came out inward back upward of the Indian journalist who exposed the Aadhaar information breach in addition to led to lodging of an FIR. He said that authorities should respect the journalist in addition to non probe him for the work.
"The journalists exposing the #Aadhaar breach deserve an award, non an investigation. If the authorities were genuinely concerned for justice, they would move reforming the policies that destroyed the privacy of a billion Indians. Want to arrest those responsible? They are called @UIDAI,” Snowden tweeted.
Snowden, a onetime Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) employee who blew the lid off USA surveillance on telephone in addition to network communications, every moment good said the Indian authorities should reform its policy to safeguard privacy of its citizens.
Retweeting CBS journalist Zack Whittaker's reply on a BuzzFeed study on the breach of Aadhaar database inward India, Snowden said, "It is the natural style of authorities to wishing perfect records of individual lives. History shows that no thing the laws, the consequence is abuse."
Whittaker had before said, "ICYMI. Republic of Republic of India has a national ID database alongside the individual information of nearly 1.2 billion nationals. It has reportedly been breached. Admin accounts tin move made in addition to access tin move sold to the database, reports BuzzFeed."
Registering an FIR against the journalist triggered widespread condemnation from all circles.
This prompted the authorities to clarify that the FIR was non against the journalist in addition to that it was lodged against unknown persons in addition to an investigation is on. Meanwhile UIDAI has suspended access of many officials to Aadhaar information afterward the loophole came to light.
