NEW DELHI: Arguing that digital identity can become a surveillance and privacy disaster Mozilla Corporation has asked the Justice BN Srikrishna committee to draft a strong data protection law to avoid disaster in an open letter.Signed by Mitchell Baker , executive chairwoman of the Mozilla Corporation, an open source Internet applications such as the Mozilla Firefoz web browser, the letter says, "In the vacuum created by India's lack of a comprehensive data protection law, the Government of India continues its relentless push to make Aadhaar mandatory for ever more government programs and private sector services in contravention of the directives of the Supreme Court."It added that individual security and privacy is increasingly being put at risk as it has been exposed by recent incidents. Acknowledging the white paper released by the Srikrishna Committee, Baker said the current proposal exempts biometric information from the definition of sensitive personal information that must be especially protected. "This is backwards, biometric info is some of the most personal info, and can’t be reset like a password."In another suggestion, the letter said that the design of Aadhaar fails to provide meaningful consent to users. "This is seen, for example, by the ever increasing number of public and private services that are linked to Aadhaar without users being given a meaningful choice in the matter. This can and should be remedied by stronger consent, data minimisation, collection limitation, and purpose limitation obligations."Mozilla has also in the past tried to outline concerns with the Aadhaar project. The letter has been signed by hundreds of Mozilla India Community Members. The Srikrishna Committee which is currently holding stakeholder consultation on the whitepaper in various cities is expected to come out with a draft of the law soon.