“De-Link your Aadhaar card number” Ordered Indian supreme court
Have you de-link Aadhaar card? Many Indians who have an Aadhaar Card number are eager to break up with it, or at least minimise its presence in their digital lives. But that’s easier said than done.
The trigger is yesterday’s (Sept. 26) Indian supreme court ruling, which said the biometric identity programme was constitutionally valid but must be curtailed. Among the points struck down by the court was section 57 of the Aadhaar card Act, which permitted private companies to ask customers for their unique ID number.
So customers can now reach out to banks, telecom companies, online wallets and any other private entity that had previously asked for an Aadhaar, and request for “delinking.” The process, though, is currently mired in confusion, as is the fate of the data already collated by these companies. Consider Paytm.
The online payments firm claimed last month that 100 million of its around 280 million users had completed the know your customer (KYC) process, mandated by the Reserve Bank of India. Although the Aadhaar card was only one among the options for completing a KYC, Paytm agents reportedly insisted that the biometric ID was mandatory.
Now, the company’s process of delinking Aadhaar seems cumbersome. The Business Standard newspaper reported that customers would have to call up Paytm’s customer-care hotline, ask the representative to send them an email to delink their Aadhaar, and then reply to that message with a “clear picture of your updated Aadhaar card.”
This process is problematic. One reason why people may wish to delink their from private services is to protect their privacy. So, asking customers to send a digital copy of their Aadhaar, which wasn’t even meant to be used as a photo ID, seems to defeat the entire purpose.
Conclusion- Seems like “Digitel India” program is launched by present Modi sarkar is applied without any privacy control through KYC, All the private company got millions of Indians privacy.
One more Decision against the Modi government.