22 March 2018 -
Non possession of Aadhaar card does not mean denial of social security benefits including pension, said India's apex court to the government on Wednesday.
The oral observation was made by a five-judge Constitution Bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justices A.K. Sikri, A.M. Kanwilkar, D.Y. Chandrachud and Ahok Bhushan to attorney-general K.K. Venugopal.
On petitioners' concerns of data security the A-G said the Aadhaar data is being protected by 13-feet high and 5-feet thick walls.
Venugopal added that supercomputer needs more than 13 billion years to hack the encrypted data of Aadhaar from the Central Identities Data Repository.
The UIDAI (Unique Identification Authority of India) chief Ajay Bhushan Pandey said Aadhaar data is secured by 2048-bit encryption and would take more than age of universe for a supercomputer to hack the system.
Pandey was giving a powerpoint presentation to the bench and added that the Aadhaar data will never be shared with anyone once it reaches the central database.
He further said that only on grounds of national security the data can be shared.
Aadhaar card scheme was launched in India in 2009-10, during the government of UPA, to improve delivery of services and reduce subsidy bill. Lately, in 2016, the BJP-led NDA government formed related law through parliament making the 12-digit Aadhaar number mandatory to access government services.
Author Sunil S.
Non possession of Aadhaar card does not mean denial of social security benefits including pension, said India's apex court to the government on Wednesday.
The oral observation was made by a five-judge Constitution Bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justices A.K. Sikri, A.M. Kanwilkar, D.Y. Chandrachud and Ahok Bhushan to attorney-general K.K. Venugopal.
On petitioners' concerns of data security the A-G said the Aadhaar data is being protected by 13-feet high and 5-feet thick walls.
Venugopal added that supercomputer needs more than 13 billion years to hack the encrypted data of Aadhaar from the Central Identities Data Repository.
The UIDAI (Unique Identification Authority of India) chief Ajay Bhushan Pandey said Aadhaar data is secured by 2048-bit encryption and would take more than age of universe for a supercomputer to hack the system.
Pandey was giving a powerpoint presentation to the bench and added that the Aadhaar data will never be shared with anyone once it reaches the central database.
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He further said that only on grounds of national security the data can be shared.
Aadhaar card scheme was launched in India in 2009-10, during the government of UPA, to improve delivery of services and reduce subsidy bill. Lately, in 2016, the BJP-led NDA government formed related law through parliament making the 12-digit Aadhaar number mandatory to access government services.
Author Sunil S.
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