The Questions

When a system can also be used to monitor the jobs one applies to, the travel one undertakes, or the people one meets, there is a serious violation of privacy. Every time an Aadhaar verification is completed, somewhere on the government’s servers is stored a veritable trove of information about the person’s entire life. The risk is that any time the government wants to cut any person down to size, all it needs to do is to disable his Aadhaar An incremental encroachment into a basic right, if not nipped in the bud, can leave the citizen stripped of defence against bigger future incursions.