Expressing concern that making the voters’ list available in machine-readable format may compromise privacy and expose it to mining by third parties, the Supreme Court Tuesday sought to know if each voter can be provided a password access that will allow them to see only their individual data.

“It prejudices per se, a data available at large, for mining by irrespective of the individual, any agency. And to that extent,” it raises “issues of individual privacy, issues of collective protection of data of Indian citizens. This is not adversarial. It has polycentric impact,” said Justice Joymalya Bagchi, who was part of a two-judge bench hearing petitions challenging the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in different states.

Justice Bagchi said this as Advocate Prashant Bhu

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