Aadhaar-social media linking ignites privacy debate on Twitter
The Tamil Nadu State government appealed to the Supreme Court on Monday to link the social media profiles of registered users with their Aadhaar numbers. They said that the linking of social media accounts with Aadhaar numbers will help the government track and detect fake news, pornography, crimes which occur online.
Since then SC has issued a notice to the Centre, Google, YouTube, Twitter and other platforms and sought their response on 13th September.
Currently, Facebook is resisting the Madras High Court’s suggestion that it link social media with Aadhaar saying that it is not authorized to share user data with third party organisations as it is a breach of their privacy policy.
They also added that since WhatsApp messages have an end to end encryption the platform itself does not have access to the private data of the user.
The fact that government wants to link social media with Aadhaar has sparked privacy debate on social media.
Attorney General says identity of social media users should be known to prevent cyber crimes, acts of terrorism and spread of dangerous games such as Blue Whale.
# FB, WhatsApp oppose Govt's contention on ground of privacy concerns. @CNNnews18 @utkarsh_aanand
Exclusive: WhatsApp's response to Dr Kamakoti's recommendation for traceability in WhatsApp.
This is the same case as Aadhaar-facebook linkage. @Aditi_muses reports.https://t.co/hAfpZttUjQ
Privacy first.
Linking #Aadhaar to social media imperils users and is something #Indians should strongly thumb down. @madversity @PritishNandy @nixxin @BDUTT @ShekharGupta @AnchorAnandN
First they came for our gas connections, then mobile phones, then bank accounts. Not to forget our children’s educational details. Now they aim to control our Social Media profiles. What next? Voting? Will #Aadhaar stop at anything, before ruling (ruining?) our lives completely? https://t.co/4cpgtfifqn
I can't make sense of this.. apparently social media being linked to #Aadhaar can prevent people from using the dark web. Any ideas? feelings? thoughts? https://t.co/b5NdpWX7hP
— Vidushi Marda (@VidushiMarda) August 21, 2019
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