(PTI)
Law and IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said today that finger print and iris data stored in the Aadhaar system are safe and secure and cannot be breached even by “billions of efforts”. Speaking at an event of Delhi School of Economics, he showed his Aadhaar card to audiences and said: “The (Aadhaar) system contains my finger print and iris kept in safe and secure encrypted form which cannot be broken even by billions of efforts. That is an Indian technology.” The comments from Prasad come at a time when there have been reports of alleged data breach of Aadhaar subscribers. The minister said that World Bank has appreciated the Aadhaar technology for inclusion which costs $1 (Rs 63.66) only but saved Rs 57,000 crore of public money. “Indian technology is today finding resonance. Poor are very happy with Aadhaar,” Prasad said. He said that by linking teachers with Aadhaar around 80,000 fake teachers have been identified by the government. Besides, 80 crore bank accounts have been linked with Aadhaar. “While we respect data privacy, it should be done, but under the garb of privacy you cannot kill innovation,” Prasad said.
