Aruna Roy at RTI Activist's National Conventio...

Aruna Roy at RTI Activist’s National Convention 12-13 May, 2007, Pune. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

MAIL TODAY BUREAU   |   MAIL TODAY  |   NEW DELHI, OCTOBER 8, 2013 |
The Supreme Court will on Tuesday hear a batch of petitions, including the one filed by social worker Aruna Roy, against the implementation of the Aadhaar scheme or the Unique Identification Number (UID) System, by linking it to various welfare schemes.The petition of Roy and others came up before a bench comprising Justices B.S. Chauhan and S A Bobde which said it will be heard along with the applications filed by the Centre and the three oil PSUs seeking modification of its earlier order that Aadhaar card is not mandatory and no person should suffer for want of it in getting benefits of government schemes.

The social worker’s plea also said the manner in which the biometric details of the citizens are collected by private contractors and NGOs hired by UIDAI without any safeguard makes it prone to misuse not only by private actors but also by the State.

“In the present age, when every country is facing the problem of identity frauds, usage of fake identities for money laundering, terrorism, etc., UID is letting private contractors collect sensitive data of persons, which is not protected or governed under any law, whatsoever,” the petition said.

The petitioners also claimed there is an empirical research to show that the biometric identification denoted for UID, namely the iris scan and finger print Identification, is faulty and capable of misuse.

 

 

 

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