The regime has collected biometric together with demographic details of over 1.1 billion people to assign a unique 12 digit identification code called ’Aadhaar’ set out to its residents.
In his petition, Shamnad Basheer has urged the courtroom to shape an goodness panel to investigate together with quantify fiscal damages due to the information leak. Basheer inward his petition said, "The inability of respondent to secure the identity information of Aadhaaris, including that of the petitioner, has resulted inward a serious together with egregious violation of the telephone substitution correct to privacy together with dignity."
The Delhi High Court has agreed to listen a plea seeking damages from the operator of the world’s largest biometric database for alleged failure to adopt adequate safety measures that led to information leaks. UIDAI has half-dozen weeks to respond together with the Delhi High Court volition listen the illustration on Nov 19.
The regime has been claiming that the information is protected alongside measures including 13-feet high walls, precisely reports of leaks choose raised concerned over the safety of the database that is utilised for services from depository fiscal establishment accounts to gas connections. The ascendance claims its protection measures are foolproof together with the plan has helped the regime convey transparency together with salve billions of rupees inward the disbursement of social sector benefits to poor.
The Supreme Court had final twelvemonth ruled that privacy is an inalienable telephone substitution correct together with is expected to hand a ruling on the legal validity of Aadhaar plan inward coming months. Lawyers together with activists had challenged the database’s validity claiming it violates citizens’ privacy together with lays a blueprint for the surveillance state. The regime had denied the claims inward the operate yesteryear court.
