Union Minister KJ Alphons had an interesting analogy to give in the wake of media reports on breach of the UIDAI’s database.
Alphons told ANI, “I filled up to 10 pages for US Visa form. We have absolutely no problem giving our fingerprints and getting body naked before the white man at all. When your own government asks for your name and address there is a massive revolution saying it’s intrusion in privacy.”
Alphons statement comes as a response to opposition parties’ hitting the government at anti-Aadhaar sentiments on data safety.
Congress president Rahul Gandhi today attacked PM Modi that the BJP-powered ‘NaMo’ app shares registered users’ data with a US-based behavioral analytics company. BJP rebutted strongly to these allegations.
Alphons in a dismissive tone, said, “You think Prime Minister is going to give your data to a private company! Don’t believe such fake stories.”
“What is given in Aadhaar are just name and address. Your bio-metric data is with UIDAI and let me assure you that it has not been breached, it’s absolutely secure. We have given authorisation to government agencies to access.”
UIDAI refused reports about fresh data leak of Aadhaar holders. What led to the statement was a claim made by ZDNet of allegedly leaking information on Aadhaar holders.