NEW DELHI: With the UPA government keen to roll out its ambitious plan of giving unique identity numbers to nearly a billion people, the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) is ready with a draft legislation to ensure data security and confidentiality of information. It has also proposed strict punishment for impersonation and breach of privacy, with fines ranging upto Rs 1 crore.
The draft bill proposes to make UIDAI a statutory body and provides for strict penalty for offences like disclosing identity information, impersonation, giving wrong biometrics and unauthorised access to data.
The draft law says that if any person \"intentionally discloses, transmits, copies or otherwise disseminates any identity information collected in the course of enrolment or authentication to any person not authorised\", he will be punished by imprisonment for a term which may extend to three years or with a fine which may extend to Rs 10,000.
In the case of a company, the fine may extend to Rs 1 lakh. Any person not authorised by UIDAI caught accessing Central Identities Data Repository (central databank) will be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to three years and will be liable to a fine which shall not be less than Rs 1 crore.
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Tuesday, June 29, 2010
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