If we have that power, please strike it down. To undertake any surveillance, we will have to conspire and collude with the Central government,” he said.Justice Chandrachud then demanded to know the purpose of storing metadata. Technology is a great enabler to surveillance,” he told Dwivedi when he argued that the state did not need Aadhaar to act as a “big brother” and put everybody under surveillance.“We cannot even tamper with the servers,” Dwivedi told Justice Chandrachud, who was far from happy with the explanations. They are in the uncharted sea,” he said.The court debated whether the government could insist on validation of pre-verified old bank accounts with Aadhaar. The government insisted that it could in view of the spurious bank accounts through which terror financing was carried out.

Source: Economic Times April 13, 2018 01:52 UTC