In yesterday's SIR hearing , the Supreme Court orally expressed reservations about making the voters list available in machine-readable format, saying that it might compromise voters' privacy.

The Court observed that the Election Commission of India holds voters' data in trust and is entitled to adopt layers of privacy to ensure that the data remains protected. The Court suggested to the ECI if the data can be password-protected so that an individual can easily access it while preventing unauthorised access by other parties.

A bench of Justices Surya Kant and Bagchi was considering a bunch of petitions challenging ECI's special intensive revision of electoral rolls in Bihar, Tamil Nadu, Pondicherry, West Bengal, etc.

Advocate Prashant Bhushan , appearing for the Association for

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