Right to Privacy: Ring-fencing Aadhaar tops govt agenda

The officer made it clear that the Aadhaar roll-out would not be clipped by the government

A day after a landmark Supreme Court judgment made privacy a fundamental right, senior government officers said on Friday there was clearly a need to ring-fence the Aadhaar programme. 

An officer connected with the developments said the government would have to assure the Supreme Court that collection of biometric data under Aadhaar, a 12-digit unique identification number, does not violate privacy. The government would also have to demonstrate that there were enough safeguards in place to ensure misuse of the data does not happen. Only then would the argument become valid. 

The officer made it clear that the Aadhaar roll-out