What UIDAI chief told Supreme Court: 10 big points

Unique Identification Authority of India CEO Ajay Bhushan Pandey yesterday made a PowerPoint presentation in the Supreme Court to defend the government's ambitious Aadhaar scheme.

Here are the top 10 comments of the UIDAI chief in the apex court.


1. Personal data acquired during enrolment, including biometrics, were encrypted and couldn’t be hacked

2. Breaking the Aadhaar encryption may take more than the age of the universe for the fastest computer on earth

3. A person should not be denied benefits because there is failure in authentication

4. No third party can either store or save a person’s data during authentication

5. Exceptions could be made in Aadhaar for leprosy patients, manual labourers and other categories of people who are unable to provide biometrics because of illness or disability.

6. Where authentication fails because of old age problems or other reasons, alternative identity proof could be used

7. Misusing an Aadhaar card is difficult because it has a hidden barcode that carries details of the original holder

8. Cases of exclusion due to corruption and other human factors.

9. Data matching software has been bought from the world's three best companies and stored on UIDAI's 6,000 servers. These are not linked to internet to eliminate possibility of any backdoor access to the data.

10. A number once given to an enrolled person would not be repeated even after their death.