India has won the battle for a right to privacy – now for the war on Aadhaar

August 24 will go down in history as the day that India’s Supreme Court ruled that privacy is a fundamental right for its citizens. If you care to read it, here’s the 547-page judgment in its entirety (mirrors to the PDF on Google Drive and Dropbox). That’s a huge win for the country’s people, particularly in the face of the ever-widening net of Aadhaar, the nationwide biometric database meant to document every citizen with the primary objective of ensuring they can access government services. As I mentioned in previous stories, Aadhaar is problematic in its current implementation; the government is…

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