Unique Identification Authority of India (UIAI), which is issuing Aadhaar cards to Indian citizens and is also managing the secrecy of bio-metric details of citizens, has assured the Supreme Court of India that even ‘super-computers’ can’t breach the security cover and steal the details of people.  “They are being preserved in a very unique manner,” UIAI said.

The Supreme Court has been hearing the case relating to the nature of security of people’s details taken for Aadhaar card registration by UIAI.  When the case came up for hearing yesterday before a Bench headed by Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra, UIAI Chief Executive Officer Ajay Bhushan Pandey made a ‘power point presentation’ in the Court premises to drive home the ‘unique’ security provided to such details.

“Details of citizens taken for Aadhaar cards have been preserved and protected in state-of-the-art encryption technology and no super-computer in the world would be able to hack or breach our security cover,” Pandey assured the apex Court.  “These details haven’t been made available online and whatever happens in future, there is absolutely no possibility of these details getting leaked,” Pandey said.

Pandey also added that inventive and most modern technology is being used to ‘update’ the bio-metric details of citizens taken for Aadhaar as some of the ‘identities’ tend to change during the course of some years.