The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI), has blacklisted the central government from which the Aadhaar details of former Indian captain MS Dhoni was allegedly leaked for ten years. The move comes after a photograph of Dhoni¡¯s application form was posted on Twitter.
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This had snowballed into a controversy after Dhoni's wife Sakshi raised the issue with Information Technology Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad on twitter.
The development could not have come at a worse time for the government which is going ahead with linking more and more schemes and even PAN number, mobile number and IT returns with aadhaar.
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The government?was going ahead with its push for the biometric data based identification amid concerns of data safety.
The Supreme Court had recently told the central government that it cannot make aadhaar mandatory for welfare schemes, but allowed the move to link ?it with¡°non-welfare¡± activities like opening a bank account or filing Income Tax returns.