New Delhi: The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) is working with Justice Srikrishna panel to put in place a stricter law for data protection and security, the UIDAI CEO Dr Ajay Bhushan Pandey informed the Supreme Court on Tuesday. Making the power point presentation for over 2 ½ hours, before a five-judge Bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justices A.K. Sikri, A.M. Kanwilkar, D.Y. Chandrachud and Ashok Bhushan, the CEO, made it clear that the apprehensions with regard to leakage of data and security breach have no basis. He said the data is encrypted and secured in the depository, which is not connected with Internet, and there was no possibility of leakage or security breach and in the last seven years there has not been a single breach of data.
At this juncture both Justice Sikri and Chandrachud wanted to know from the CEO as to whether data collected can be shared for commercial gain by the authentication user agencies, who are all private companies.
