New Delhi: The government on Wednesday informed
Parliament that the information provided by individuals for
issuance of UIDAI numbers will be kept confidential.
"Adequate safeguards have been provided to ensure
individual's privacy and confidentiality of information,"
Minister of State for Planning Ashwani Kumar said in a written
reply to the Lok Sabha.
The mandate of Unique Identification Authority of India
(UIDAI) is to issue UID numbers (Aadhaar) to all residents of
India.
"The total amount incurred for the project during the
current financial year 2011-12 (up to October, 2011) is Rs
210.22 crore," Kumar added.
The UIDAI collects five demographic details -- Name, age,
gender, address and name of the father/mother/spouse/guardian.
"In order to ensure that the confidentiality of the data
is maintained, UIDAI will not allow download of the data from
its Central Identities Data Repository (CIDR) and will answer
the queries only in 'Yes' or 'No'," Kumar said.
He said a number of processes have been put in place to
ensure that the data collected by UIDAI is not accessed in
unauthorised manner.
PTI
First Published: Wednesday, December 21, 2011, 18:14