Editing Privacy (section)

====India====
{{further|Aadhaar#Lack of legislation and privacy concerns}}

Since the introduction of the [[Aadhaar]] project in 2009, which resulted in all 1.2 billion Indians being associated with a 12-digit biometric-secured number. Aadhaar has uplifted the poor in India{{how|date=July 2023}}{{promotion inline|date=July 2023}} by providing them with a form of  identity and preventing the fraud and waste of resources, as normally the government would not be able to allocate its resources to its intended assignees due to the ID issues.{{Citation needed|date=December 2021}} With the rise of Aadhaar, India has debated whether Aadhaar violates an individual's privacy and whether any organization should have access to an individual's digital profile, as the Aadhaar card became associated with other economic sectors, allowing for the tracking of individuals by both public and private bodies.<ref>{{Cite web|title=What Happens When a Billion Identities Are Digitized?|url=https://insights.som.yale.edu/insights/what-happens-when-billion-identities-are-digitized|access-date=2021-11-22|website=Yale Insights|date=27 March 2020 |language=en}}</ref> Aadhaar databases have suffered from security attacks as well and the project was also met with mistrust regarding the safety of the social protection infrastructures.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Masiero|first=Silvia|date=2018-09-24|title=Explaining Trust in Large Biometric Infrastructures: A Critical Realist Case Study of India's Aadhaar Project |url=https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/35413 |journal=The Electronic Journal of Information Systems in Developing Countries|volume=84|issue=6|pages=e12053|doi=10.1002/isd2.12053|doi-access=free}}</ref>  In 2017, where the Aadhar was challenged, the Indian Supreme Court declared privacy as a human right, but postponed the decision regarding the constitutionality of Aadhaar for another bench.<ref>{{Cite news|last=McCarthy|first=Julie|date=2017-08-24|title=Indian Supreme Court Declares Privacy A Fundamental Right|language=en|work=NPR|url=https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/08/24/545963181/indian-supreme-court-declares-privacy-a-fundamental-right|access-date=2021-11-22}}</ref> In September 2018, the Indian Supreme Court determined that the Aadhaar project did not violate the legal right to privacy.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Saberin|first=Zeenat|title=India's top court upholds validity of biometric ID card|url=https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/9/26/indias-top-court-upholds-constitution-validity-of-aadhaar-card|access-date=2021-11-22|website=www.aljazeera.com|language=en}}</ref>