Scrap Aadhar project, says VS Achuthanandan

Saturday, August 27, 2011: CPI-M veteran VS Achuthanandan on Friday demanded that the Centre abandon the Aadhar project to issue unique ID numbers to all citizens, considering security and ethical consequences involved.
“Similar projects had been given up by many countries after realising the dangers involved and in India it is being pushed to serve the interests of the industrial lobby,” he said in a statement here.
Under the scheme, biometric statistics of individuals such as their thumb impression and details of retina are collected.
Achuthanandan said experts are of the view that these biometric features could be manipulated in the UID card, which could lead to serious security issues later.
Also, the whole project posed the ethical question of invasion into the privacy of individuals.
The Citizenship Act of 1955 and Citizenship Rules of 2003 concerning the national registry of population did not insist on the need to collect biometric details of people.
Achuthanandan said a circular had been issued by the Department of Public Instructions in Kerala, ordering school authorities to collect details of children for the UID without the prior consent of them or their parents.

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