On a public website meant to help students learn about opportunities for scholarships in government schools in Andhra Pradesh, anyone can access a dashboard showing the complete list of students belonging to scheduled castes, along with their Aadhaar numbers.

The UIDAI has made it clear that Aadhaar numbers should not be shared publicly, and only used for official purposes. Most recently, after the Department of Posts told people to paste an Aadhaar copy on top of international parcels, it quickly changed its stance to say the Aadhaar document is for office use only.

But even beyond that, the use of Aadhaar to identify students is a concern because as a unique identifier, it can be used to connect data from different dashboards like these, and build a surveillance profile of people. The upcoming Supreme Court verdict on Aadhaar could bring some relief, although it's too early to say now.

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Using the dashboard, HuffPost India found the Aadhaar numbers of literally thousands of students. Using the UIDAI's website, HuffPost India was able to verify that these are genuine Aadhaar numbers, which are registered in Andhra Pradesh and belong to people of the right age.

This is a serious concern, and not the first time that Andhra Pradesh has made the location and identity of people public in this fashion. In April, HuffPost India reported on a website that allowed anyone to geolocate people in Andhra Pradesh by caste and religion.

"Creating public, searchable, digital profiles of minorities makes them potential targets of attack," said Kavita Srivastava, who has investigated scores of communal riots as National Secretary of the People's Union for Civil Liberties.

HuffPost India has written to the government body behind the website, but no response has been received until now, and the site remains accessible at the time of publishing.