At a time when the clamour to link voter ID with Aadhaar numbers has been making headlines, Justice Srikrishna described the Election Commission’s request for a law to link electoral rolls with Aadhaar as “the most dangerous situation.”

Speaking on a range of issues related to data and privacy of citizens on 24 August, Justice (Retd) B N Srikrishna, who chaired the expert committee that drafted India’s Personal Data Protection Bill, said “I am not happy with the way the government is handling a number of things”.

In response to his views on the concerns of linking Aadhaar with voter ID of citizens, Justice Srikrishna warned that “instead of having a Cambridge Analytica you’ll have a Delhi Analytica, a Mumbai Analytica, a Calcutta Analytica. That is the danger.”