HOW THE SUPREME COURT MODIFIED THE AADHAAR ACT
Struck down Section 57 of the Act, which allowed corporate entities or even individuals to demand an Aadhaar card in exchange for goods or services
Read down—in common parlance, specified the scope of—Section 33(1) which allows disclosure of information, including identity and authentication records, if ordered by a court not inferior to that of a District Judge. Reading down this sub-section, the SC said individuals should be given the opportunity of a hearing
Struck down Section 33(2) of the Act which allowed identity and authentication data to be disclosed in the interest of national security on direction of an officer not below the rank of joint secretary to the Government of India. The top court ruled that a judicial officer (preferably a sitting high court judge) should be associated with it and that the government should bring in legislation to this effect
Struck down Section 47 which allowed only UIDAI and no private individual to file complaints related to data breach. Any individual will now be allowed to file a complaint if he/ she feels their data has been compromised
Struck down provision that allowed archiving of authentication records for five years. Such records can be kept for only six months now
Banned storage of metadata of the transactions of individuals. This means UIDAI cannot collect data sets and mine it for more data or analysis
Struck down data-sharing by UIDAI with corporates, telephone companies, banks etc