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Linking profile with Aadhaar: SC to hear FB's plea for transfer of cases

The top court issued notice to the Centre, Google, Twitter, YouTube and others and sought their response by September 13

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Press Trust of India New Delhi
The Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to hear a plea of Facebook Inc for transfer of cases related to demands for linking of social media profiles of users with Aadhaar number, pending before the high courts of Madras, Bombay and Madhya Pradesh to the apex court.

The top court issued notice to the Centre, Google, Twitter, YouTube and others and sought their response by September 13.

A bench of justices Deepak Gupta and Aniruddha Bose said the notices to unserved parties should be sent through e-mail.

The bench said the hearing in cases related to linkage of social media user

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