{"id":31947,"date":"2018-10-29T11:55:13","date_gmt":"2018-10-29T06:25:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=31947"},"modified":"2018-10-29T11:55:13","modified_gmt":"2018-10-29T06:25:13","slug":"can-govt-mandate-sharing-of-biometric-data-asks-sc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/can-govt-mandate-sharing-of-biometric-data-asks-sc\/","title":{"rendered":"Can govt. mandate sharing of biometric data, asks SC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/can-govt-mandate-sharing-of-biometric-data-asks-sc\/article22458944.ece\"><strong>Can govt. mandate sharing of biometric data, asks SC<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Context<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Supreme Court asked whether the state could compel citizens, including children, to part with their biometrics in public interest even as petitioners described the Aadhaar \u201cproject\u201d as a \u201cgiant electronic leash,\u201d which reduces individuals to mere numbers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Court begins hearing on 27 petitions against the Aadhaar project<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A five-judge Constitution Bench, led by Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra, began hearing 27 writ petitions filed by people from all walks of life and across the country.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Enrollments without statutory regime<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Senior advocate Shyam Divan, with advocates Vipin Nair and P.B. Suresh, argued that enrolment for Aadhaar went on from 2009 to 2016 \u2014 when the Aadhaar Act came into existence \u2014 without a statutory regime<\/p>\n<p><strong>Data transfer to UIDAI without any legal framework<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The captured personal data of crores of citizens were transferred from private enrolment agencies to the UIDAI without any legal framework, the petitioners contended.<\/p>\n<p><strong>No opt out option<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere was no free consent. There was no \u2018opt-out\u2019 option.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Questions asked<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Can the state\u2019s right of eminent domain extend to the human body? Can the state encroach on personal body autonomy?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can govt. mandate sharing of biometric data, asks SC Context The Supreme Court asked whether the state could compel citizens, including children, to part with their biometrics in public interest even as petitioners described the Aadhaar \u201cproject\u201d as a \u201cgiant electronic leash,\u201d which reduces individuals to mere numbers. Court begins hearing on 27 petitions against&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/can-govt-mandate-sharing-of-biometric-data-asks-sc\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Can govt. mandate sharing of biometric data, asks SC<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704788726},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31947\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}