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Post by confuzzled dude Fri Aug 25, 2017 7:30 pm

A few minutes on, the billionaire revealed that his new 4G mobile service, Reliance Jio, had acquired 100 million subscribers since its launch in September 2016. Such prolific growth had been supported, in part, by Jio’s use of online authentication based on Aadhaar, India’s 12-digit unique identification number. “Aadhaar enabled us to acquire a million customers a day,” Ambani said, “which is unheard of in the industry as a whole.”

Five months later, in July, the personal data of over 100 million Jio customers purportedly appeared on a website. The company steadfastly denied the veracity of the leaked data, though it eventually filed a police complaint alleging “unlawful access to its systems.”
In its defence, the Narendra Modi government’s stand was simple: There is no fundamental right to privacy under the Indian constitution.
Yet, the Modi government kept pushing Aadhaar into more and more schemes, including mid-day meals for school children. When cornered in court, its arguments were sometimes startling. In the Aadhaar-PAN case, for example, the then attorney general Mukul Rohatgi contended that citizens’ absolute right over their bodies was a false belief. “The concept of absolute right over one’s body was a myth and there were various laws which put restrictions on such a right,” the government’s most senior lawyer said.
https://qz.com/1061195/taming-aadhaar-an-epic-battle-has-been-won-in-the-fight-for-privacy-in-india-but-the-war-isnt-over/

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