The indecency of exposing personal details.

"The government claims 99% of people over age 18 now have Aadhaar. I, however, belong to the 1% who don't," wrote Tathagata Satpathy, a member of the Lok Sabha. Aadhaar is a biometric identity card that is being forced on all citizens to avail of any service, including opening a bank account, getting a mobile phone, and even for filing tax returns. The government and private companies are profiting from our personal data. "The biggest industrialist in India stated very clearly: 'Data is the new oil'," wrote Mr Satpathy. "If data is the 'new oil' and you are extracting that oil from me, it implies I am the resource. I should be compensated for providing that resource." He recommends a Universal Basic Income of Rs 12,000 per year to every citizen, regardless of wealth. A 9-bench Constitutional Court has been set up to decide whether privacy is a 'fundamental right' for citizens of India. The Court is considering splitting privacy into three levels, intimate, private and public. The judges are too learned. It is very simple: only humans need privacy, so privacy is a basic human right. Nandan Nilekani, who perpetrated this indecency on citizens, swore that biometric identity is completely safe. This was echoed by Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad. The government says that privacy is not eroded because religion, income or class are not included and it is safe because the information is encrypted, the database is secure against hacking and any attempt to hack into it will be a criminal offense. But many experts have grave doubts about its security and the possibility of identity theft. L Vishwanath that biometric data maybe stolen at the point of verification and once a person's data is compromised she cannot use it for life, because biometrics cannot be changed like a password or a pin number. As for the data being secure it has been proven to be a complete lie. One Abhinav Srivastav has been arrested for hacking into the Aadhaar database through Digital India App, which is has been created by the government. He even demonstrated to the police how easy it was. He is a hero and we should be raising a large sum of money through crowd-funding to reward him for exposing the lies told to us. Since he is an Indian he has been caught, but what if a foreign agency or terrorist hacks into the database. He can produce identity cards and use them to obtain phones and launder money to create havoc inside India. How will the government catch him? The chief of UIDAI claimed that no data was stolen. Should we believe him?