Amidst new Aadhaar linkages with health and voter IDs, the Standing Committee on Information Technology has started looking into privacy and profiling concerns with the UIDAI, it is learnt. On November 16, the committee summoned UIDAI CEO Saurabh Garg and IT Secretary Ajay Sawhney to provide answers with relation to UIDAI's safety measures. The committee asked for details on the number of hackings the UIDAI database has seen, the steps the authority takes to secure the database, and how it addresses concerns of 360-degree surveillance with the authority's Aadhaar database being linked with multiple other IDs. Garg has been asked to return with written answers to the committee's questions although a date has not been given for it and the committee also plans to summon others on the matter but no such communication has been issued yet, it is understood.…
