The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear on Monday a plea by Congress leader Randeep Singh Surjewala challenging the Election Law Amendment Act that enables linking electoral roll data with the Aadhaar ecosystem.
바카라 웹사이트A bench of justices D Y Chandrachud and A S Bopanna are likely to take up the petition.바카라 웹사이트
The Congress leader, in his plea, submitted that the linking of the cards “infringes upon the fundamental right of privacy of citizens and is unconstitutional and ultra vires the Constitution".
바카라 웹사이트“Linking of Aadhaar data with Electronic Electoral Photo Identity Card data will allow the personal and private data of voters to be available to statutory authority and shall impose a limitation on the voters, i.e., the voters will now have to establish their identity before the Electoral Registration Officer (Respondent No. 2) by furnishing their respective Aadhaar details.
바카라 웹사이트“The situation will further be aggravated by the fact that at present there are no laws for protecting the data of citizens,” the plea said.바카라 웹사이트It claimed the amendment may even enable voter profiling as all the demographic information linked to Aadhaar shall be linked with the Voter ID.바카라 웹사이트“This can, in theory, also increase the possibility of disenfranchisement/intimidation based on the identity of voters.
바카라 웹사이트"This may even increase chances of voter surveillance and the commercial exploitation of private sensitive data of voters,” it said.
