Aadhaar no panacea

Government should not take Nandan Nilekani's warning lightly

With reference to the editorial, “Mr Nilekani’s warning” (August 11), the present government should not take his words lightly and ignore repeated data security concerns linked to the Aadhaar database raised by Nandan Nilekani himself, the founding chairman of the Unique Identity Development authority of India (UIDAI) and Infosys co-founder. 

His apprehensions about the Aadhaar data getting hacked in the absence of safeguards against the backdrop of the lack of data security and privacy protection are not unfounded. The UIDAI has lodged a complaint against an IIT Kharagpur engineer for illegally accessing the Aadhaar database using an app being developed at