Aadhaar Database leaked to CIA? Indian Govt Officials also denies
WikiLeaks hints in its latest report that CIA have access to full Aadhaar database. A few days letter when the Supreme Court of India given judgment: Right to Personal Security is a fundamental right. WikiLeaks raises a very important issue over personal data security of India citizens.
Highlights
# WikiLeaks Tweeted on Friday:
“Have CIA spies already stolen #India’s national ID card database?”
“A few minutes later, it tweeted: “Has the CIA already stolen India’s #Aadhaar database?”
# The claim was dismissed by official sources in India
# Cross Match Technologies provided tools for cyber spying
# Cross also provides biometric solutions to the Unique Identification Authority of India
WikiLeaks exposed the US based Cross Match Technologies provided tools to CIA for cyber spying.
It is important to know that the Cross Match Technologies is also the same company who gives biometric solutions for Aadhaar UID.
When contacted, official sources said the report was not a WikiLeaks “leak” but a report by a website. Cross Match is a global supplier of devices used for biometric data capture.
But the data collected cannot reach the company or any other entity as vendors collect data in an encrypted form that is transferred to Aadhaar servers. “The reports do not have any basis in fact. Aadhaar data is safely encrypted and is not accessible to any other agency,” said official sources.
The reports do not have any basis in fact. Aadhaar data is safely encrypted and is not accessible to any other agency
“The OTS (Office of Technical Services), a branch within the CIA, has a biometric collection system that is provided to liaison services around the world — with the expectation for sharing of the biometric takes collected on the systems. But this ‘voluntary sharing’ obviously does not work or is considered insufficient by the CIA, because ExpressLane is a covert information collection tool that is used by the CIA to secretly exfiltrate data collections from such systems provided to liaison services,”