The data leak is of AADHAR database. Which is a proof of identity that is required by everyone to avail government services. It is even used for SIM registration and opening bank account.
Government has been recently trying to link Voter IDs to AADHAR. It is already linked to Tax Account called PAN.
It has been turned it to a surveillance tool and this leak can be huge if true.
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We don’t care ,only thing which matters is US v/s THEM
That’s more than half of the Indian population. Catastrophic if true.
India ≠ Privacy
How the turntables. Now I will call them for spam lol
Anecdotal, but last night I got half a dozen pings on my banking app asking me to authorise transactions for thousands of rupees 🤨
Had to cancel the card
Won’t really matter if all those 815 million can barely make an income.
So now instead of being incredibly poor, they will starve to death. How fun!
Is this for real? Those are very big numbers.
Bruh? Aadhar database has individuals full fingerpront and retinal scan, how could they mess it up so bad
The data leak is of AADHAR database. Which is a proof of identity that is required by everyone to avail government services. It is even used for SIM registration and opening bank account.
Government has been recently trying to link Voter IDs to AADHAR. It is already linked to Tax Account called PAN.
It has been turned it to a surveillance tool and this leak can be huge if true.
And you can’t get a job without the AADHAR either.
Yikes. Thanks for the info.
Is there anyone left in India who would have personal information to steal after this?