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A bill proposes creation of a national DNA data bank, without requisite safeguards for privacy, and opens the information to everything from civic disputes to compilation of statistics.
On Wednesday, the Narendra Modi government told the Supreme Court that India’s citizen’s have no fundamental right to privacy. Attorney General Mukul Rohatgi referred to a 1950 court verdict which held that the right to privacy was not a fundamental right while defending the constitutional validity of the Aadhar scheme, a massive database of information of individual citizens including biometrics and bank accounts. At the same time the government is planning another big database.
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