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Journalists who exposed Aadhaar breach deserve an award, not probe: Snowden

Ravi Shankar Prasad had said on Monday that the administration was 'fully committed to freedom of press' and that an FIR filed is 'against unknown'

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American whistleblower Edward Snowden on Tuesday came out in support of a national daily reporter, who has been booked for exposing alleged flaws in Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) system.
Taking to Twitter, Snowden said instead of an investigation, the journalist needed to be rewarded for exposing that the Aadhar data was not fullproof and could be obtained at a cost of only Rs 500.
In his tweet, the former United States government contractor, who has taken an asylum in Russia, also suggested that action should rather be taken against UIDAI, the body that runs the Aadhaar programme.
"The journalists exposing the

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