The custodian of data for millions of Aadhaar card users, the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI), has routinely denied any breach of privacy. Aadhaar, one of the world’s single largest caches of data about citizenship details, leaks like a sieve. In January 2018, despite all of UIDAI’s claims that “Aadhaar data is fully safe and secure”, a newspaper team purchased a service over WhatsApp for as little as Rs 500 to get access to a billion Aadhaar numbers. The custodian of data for millions of Aadhaar card users, the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI), has routinely denied any breach of privacy. Aadhaar, one of the world’s single largest caches of data about citizenship details, leaks like a sieve.

Source: Indian Express November 03, 2023 01:14 UTC