Tag: Personal data

—Menaka Guruswamy, B.R Ambedkar Research Scholar and Lecturer in Law, Columbia Law School and Advocate, Supreme Court of India Child rights activist and Ramon Magsaysay awardee Shanta Sinha has spent much of her life fighting the good fight. When she realised that many of the poorest of the poor in India could not access social welfare benefits like ‘mid-day meals’ without an Aadhar or Unique Identification Number (UID), she decided to challenge the constitutionality of such a governmental measure.