New Delhi: The Centre on Tuesday informed the Supreme Court that the Justice Srikrishna panel on data protection will submit its report by the end of March and the government would come out with a law thereafter.
Attorney General K.K. Venugopal gave this information before a five judge Constitution bench comprising the Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justices A.K. Sikri, A.M. Khanwilkar, D.Y. Chandrachud and Ashok Bhan said the public could give their suggestions to that panel by January 31.
Senior Lawyer Shyam Divan appearing for Anti Aadhaar petitioners told court if there is data breach there is no forum to complain.
The AG responded to the counsel’s submission. Justice D.Y. Chandrachud asked Mr Divan, “In an extremely networked world what difference does it make in quoting Aadhaar? Would the danger be averted by expressly saying that the Information would be used only for the purpose it was collected?”
Mr Divan said he would make his reply later during the course of his arguments.
Mr Divan said there have been multiple data breaches from several government portals relating to Aadhaar card details thus seriously impinging upon the privacy of millions of citizens in the country.
He said these data breaches are in flagrant violation of Section 29 of the Aadhaar Act read with Regulations 6 and 7 of the Aadhaar (Sharing of Information) Regulations 2016.
He submitted that the act of the authorities in creating and perpetuating Aadhaar as a universal, unique identifier exponentially increases the dangers associated with any data breach.
