AFP photoNew Delhi: An agency that helps Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) enroll citizens for Aadhaar inadvertently shared the personal details of former Indian captain M.S. Dhoni on social media. The agency was later blacklisted.
Union law and information and technology minister Ravi Shankar Prasad, who was informed about the breach by Dhoni's wife Sakshi on Twitter, was prompt to promise action.
The agency's Common Services Center (CSC) had posted a tweet Wednesday through its handle @CSCegov saying "Ace cricketer Mahendra Singh Dhoni and his family get their Aadhaar updated at VLE Mariya Farooqui's CSE at Ranchi, Jharkhand".
Prasad was tagged in the tweet. It included a photograph of the cricketer with a CSC representative and his personal details from the Aadhaar website. The tweet with the details was later deleted.
"Is there any privacy left? Information of Adhaar card, including application, is made public property," Sakshi tweeted. Prasad, while thanking Sakshi for bringing up the issue to his notice, said, "sharing personal information is illegal. Serious action will be taken against this".
