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title: "Aadhaar Project Violates Vital Principles On Data Collection"
description: "Rethink Aadhaar cautiously welcomes the Sri Krishna Committee White Paper which has been shared for public comments and inputs. This marks an important first step in a more transparent and accountable..."
pubDate: 2017-11-27
author: Rethink Aadhaar
category: Uncategorized
originalUrl: https://rethinkaadhaar.in/blog/aadhaar-project-violates-vital-principles-on-data-collection
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Rethink Aadhaar cautiously welcomes the Sri Krishna Committee White Paper which has been shared for public comments and inputs. This marks an important first step in a more transparent and accountable pre-legislative process. 
Rethink Aadhaar wrote to the Srikrishna committee on the 5 November 2017 expressing its concern with the constitution of the committee. 22 concerned citizens from across the country signed this letter [including,](http://indianexpress.com/article/india/citizens-group-questions-data-privacy-panel-composition-aadhaar-4924220/) ex-Chief Justice of Delhi High Court, AP Shah, former Chief Information Commissioner Wajahat Habibullah, Privacy Petitioners, Maj Gen (retd) SG Vombatkere, Prof Anupam Saraph and Aruna Roy, Senior Advocates Prashant Bhushan and Indira Jaising, former Governor Gopalkrishna Gandhi, Prof Tarlochan Sastry and Prof Jagdeep Chokkhar of the Association for Democratic Reforms among several Information activists.
The Srikrishna committee was constituted on 31 July 2017 to identify issues related to data protection and to formulate a Data Protection Bill. 
Our earlier letter highlighted the fact that the Committee the present composition of the committee is problematic insofar as all its members, except Justice Srikrishna, have pronounced professional and personal views in support of the Aadhaar program and its extension into areas that it was not designed for. 

**We are disappointed that the composition of the committee remains unchanged. **

Experts who have expressed independent and critical views on Aadhaar have not been co-opted by the committee. This could still be possible in the future and we hope the Committee will keep this in mind. 
A mandatory and coercive Aadhaar project has led to millions of Indian citizens being enrolled into the world’s largest biometric identification project. 
Issues of surveillance, welfare, national security, and Private companies and their access to this data is becoming crucial. Massive data collection proliferates unregulated.