The UIDAI has filed an FIR against ‘The Tribune’ and its journalist who reported the Aadhaar data breach story. Photo: Priyanka Parashar/MintThe Unique Identification Authority of India’s (UIDAI’s) response to a The Tribune report last week that detailed an alleged data breach in the Aadhaar programme has moved from unsatisfactory to counterproductive. In April 2017, a government statement in the Rajya Sabha revealed UIDAI had cancelled and blacklisted 34,000 Aadhaar operators. For instance, in December 2016, it declined to give information related to breach of personal data in response to a Right to Information query. The Aadhaar programme indeed has multiple potential benefits, as the government points out.

Source: Mint January 07, 2018 17:37 UTC