Bengalauru : Amidst controversies surrounding Cambridge Analytica and Facebook on the data breach issue, Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad today said the government would not tolerate any unauthorised use of data for abuse or to influence elections.
The IT Minister also rejected the suggestion to link Aadhaar with voter ID, saying though he was personally not in favour of it, those opposing Aadhaar would accuse the Narendra Modi government of snooping on everyone. The Aadhaar and Voter ID cards operate in different fields, he said, adding a voter ID has much more details, which is lacking in the Aadhaar card.
"Both of them (Aadhaar and voter ID) operate in different fields.You go to cast your vote...if you show your Aadhaar card, you will not be allowed to cast your vote unless you show your voter ID card." "The larger issue is that if everything is linked to Aadhaar, then the great supporters of anti-Aadhaar will say that the Narendra Modi government is snooping on everything, boarding, what you are eating, which cinema you are going. I don't want that," said the union minister.
Prasad also said that Aadhaar during UPA government did not have any legal backing, whereas the NDA government brought a separate law for it. He also expressed anguish over the 'pathetic infrastructure' in Bengaluru, despite the city being the IT hub of India. He said enormous delay in Metro rail project and flooding in Bengaluru had hit the headlines. PTI
