<p class="title">The Supreme Court on Friday sought Attorney General's assistance on a plea by a TMC MLA, contending the UIDAI has initiated a move to monitor online and other media contents related to Aadhaar, which may result in breach of privacy of citizens.</p>.<p class="bodytext">A bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justices A M Khanwilkar and D Y Chandrachud put the writ petition filed by Mahua Moitra for consideration on September 11.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Senior advocate Abhishek M Singhvi, representing the petitioner, said like a previous move by the Information and Broadcasting Ministry's decision to set up social media hub, which was subsequently scrapped, this time Unique Identification Authority of India has invited a similar bid for monitoring of media contents, including of Facebook and Twitter.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Moitra, in her plea, feared that this could enable UIDAI to lay down a surveillance mechanism and result in the breach of privacy.</p>.<p class="bodytext">“Let the matter be listed on September 11. The Attorney General for India is requested to assist the court on that day,” the bench said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">On a petition by Moitra, the Centre had on August three told the court that it has withdrawn the move to establish a social media communication hub for analysing online activities of the citizens.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The move by the NDA government then came weeks after the court took strong exception to the Information and Broadcasting Ministry's decision in April, saying it would be "like creating a surveillance state". The court had earlier also asked if the government wanted to tap citizens' WhatsApp messages as well.</p>
<p class="title">The Supreme Court on Friday sought Attorney General's assistance on a plea by a TMC MLA, contending the UIDAI has initiated a move to monitor online and other media contents related to Aadhaar, which may result in breach of privacy of citizens.</p>.<p class="bodytext">A bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justices A M Khanwilkar and D Y Chandrachud put the writ petition filed by Mahua Moitra for consideration on September 11.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Senior advocate Abhishek M Singhvi, representing the petitioner, said like a previous move by the Information and Broadcasting Ministry's decision to set up social media hub, which was subsequently scrapped, this time Unique Identification Authority of India has invited a similar bid for monitoring of media contents, including of Facebook and Twitter.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Moitra, in her plea, feared that this could enable UIDAI to lay down a surveillance mechanism and result in the breach of privacy.</p>.<p class="bodytext">“Let the matter be listed on September 11. The Attorney General for India is requested to assist the court on that day,” the bench said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">On a petition by Moitra, the Centre had on August three told the court that it has withdrawn the move to establish a social media communication hub for analysing online activities of the citizens.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The move by the NDA government then came weeks after the court took strong exception to the Information and Broadcasting Ministry's decision in April, saying it would be "like creating a surveillance state". The court had earlier also asked if the government wanted to tap citizens' WhatsApp messages as well.</p>
