This is a record of the proceedings in the Supreme Court bench hearings on the Constitutional validity of Aadhaar, which began on Feb 13, 2018. You may read the previous days' proceedings here: Day 1, Day 2, Day 3, Day 4, Day 5, Day 6, Day 7, Day 8, Day 9, Day 10, Day 11, Day 12, Day 13, Day 14, Day 15, Day 16., Day 17, Day 18, Day 19, Day 20, Day 2, Day 22, Day 23, Day 24, Day 25, Day 26, Day 27, Day 28, Day 29, Day , Day 31 and Day 32. Senior Advocate Rakesh Dwivedi continued his arguments on behalf of the government/UIDAI. He addressed the petitioners questions around what sort of control UIDAI has over Requesting Entities (RE)? He said that it was a fair and reasonable safeguard under Article 21. He said that data under REs is segregated. There's no way to aggregate that data as there are over 300 REs. Justice Sikri asked about individual REs collecting data. Dwivedi suggested the example of Vodafone. He asked what Vodafone could do with the authentication data? They can't track any individual, he said. He said Vodafone can do targeted advertising using the data which is already happening without Aadhaar. Vodafone has far more demographic data about an individual than UIDAI has. In the case of UIDAI, there are so many regulations and penal consequences that don't apply to Vodafone. Dwivedi showed a credit card statement to the bench to show that banks have a record of all transactions made by an individual including the place of transaction.…
