Aadhaar data leak | FIR should be registered against UIDAI, not journalist: Edward Snowden
Four days after criticising governments from across the world for accessing private lives of a country’s citizens, US whistleblower Edward Snowden on Tuesday strongly criticised the FIR that was registered against a journalist from The Tribue over her article that exposed loopholes in the UIDAI security, which made it easy for everyone to access Aadhaar data.
Taking to Twitter, Snowden said, “The journalists exposing the #Aadhaar breach deserve an award, not an investigation. If the government were truly concerned for justice, they would be reforming the policies that destroyed the privacy of a billion Indians. Want to arrest those responsible? They are called @UIDAI,” Snowden tweeted.
The journalists exposing the #Aadhaar breach deserve an award, not an investigation. If the government were truly concerned for justice, they would be reforming the policies that destroyed the privacy of a billion Indians. Want to arrest those responsible? They are called @UIDAI. https://t.co/xyewbK2WO2
— Edward Snowden (@Snowden) January 8, 2018
Last Friday, Snowden said that the Aadhaar database conceived and introduced by the Indian government can also be misused and abused. Retweeting CBS journalist Zack Whittaker’s response on a BuzzFeed report on the breach of Aadhaar …read more
