Prasanna S

Srikrishna Committee report effectively indicts many practices, principles of UIDAI.

Also, the very idea of a boundless general purpose identification database is constitutionally suspect following the unequivocal declaration of privacy as a fundamental right, and the drawing up of the conditions of restricting that right in as narrow a manner as the judgment has done.

Infringement of privacy, therefore, by state and non-state actors has come to be a real danger of contemporary times and it required a strong articulation as a fundamental right and it is a major relief that it has come from the Supreme Court.

Government’s position on right to privacy has been inconsistent

Governments are making Aadhaar mandatory in contravention of court orders