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Edward Snowden says India’s Aadhaar is An Improper Gate to Service

January 22, 2018 | By

Chandigarh: Edward Snowden, an American whistleblower who is living in exile after he exposed State’s practise of mass spying, on Sunday (Jan. 22) called India’s Aadhaar card “an improper gate to service” and said demands to link it to various services “must be criminalised.”

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Edward Snowden’s comments cam in form a tweet that he posted along with a link to an article authored by former head of Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) K C Verma. This is the third time the former US National Security Agency contractor has tweeted about Aadhaar this month.

Edward Snowden’s tweet reads:

He later retweeted those who replied to him pointing out how banks and telecom companies in India are insistent on Aadhaar linkage.

Later on Sunday evening, Snowden took an older tweet from the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) itself and responded to it, pointing out design flaws in information flow with Aadhaar.

The @UIDAI tweet from January 16 read: “#Aadhaar is an identifier, not a profiling tool. Aadhaar database does not keep any information about bank accounts, shares, mutual funds, property details, health records, family details, religion, caste, education etc. #AadhaarMythBuster.” Snowden quoted this tweet and wrote: “That might be true if banks, landlords, hospitals, schools, telephone & internet companies were prohibited by law from asking for your #Aadhaar number. But any Indian can tell you they’re asked for their number by non-government entities–and those companies have databases too.”


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