UIDAI Official Website For Admins Of Aadhar Database Down After Reports Of Data Breach
People in queues for Aadhaar registration.
The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI), the body that runs Aadhaar, denied that the breach allowed access to millions of Aadhaar cardholders' details, saying demographic information can not be misused without biometrics (See: UIDAI probing reported Aadhaar data breach, but denies information leak).
"The Guild condemns the UIDAI's action to have the Tribune reporter booked by the police as it is clearly meant to browbeat a journalist whose investigation on the matter was of great public interest".
Under fire for filing the FIR, the UIDAI said it respects free speech, including freedom of the press, and its police complaint should not be viewed as "shooting the messenger".
Instead of penalising the reporter, the Guild said the "UIDAI should have ordered a thorough internal investigation into the alleged breach and made its findings public".
The UIDAI, which runs the biometric identity card scheme, had denied that any data breach was possible and filed an FIR against the reporter under IPC sections 419 (punishment for cheating under impersonation), 420 (cheating), 468 (forgery), 471 (using a forged document) and also under sections of the IT Act and the Aadhaar Act.
The Tribune report, widely shared on social media, claimed that it took just Rs 500 and 10 minutes for the newspaper to get access through an "agent" to every detail of any individual submitted to the UIDAI including name, address, postal code (PIN), photo, phone number and email.
"The Aadhaar data, including biometric information, is fully safe and secure", it had said, adding, "There has not been any data breach of the biometric database, which remains fully safe and secure with the highest encryption at UIDAI and a mere display of demographic information can not be misused without biometrics".
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The media fraternity in Chandigarh is also up in arms against the UIDAI's move to implicate the journalist in the case for exposing lacunae in its security systems related to Aadhaar.
In a statement, it said that its act should not be viewed as one targeting the media or a whistleblower.
January 05 (ANI): A day after the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) denied that there was any breach of the Aadhaar database, American whistleblower Edward Snowden said on Friday that the Aadhaar database conceived and introduced by the Indian government can also be misused and abused.
The Mumbai Press Club too condemned the "unilateral action of the UIDAI for lodging an FIR" and underlined that the action "will be treated as nothing short of an attack on the privileges and rights of a free press".
The police was informed by the UIDAI official that the correspondent of The Tribune, posing as a buyer, had purchased the details.
The authority called The Tribune report "a case of misreporting".
Meanwhile, the Congress has attacked the Centre for targeting the story and the journalist instead of rectifying its own faults.
"Intent, & Intentions of Modi Govt on Privacy were thoroughly exposed when it had proclaimed that no citizen can have an absolute right over his/her body", Congress chief spokesperson Randeep Singh Surjewala tweeted.
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