Supreme Court says biometric authentication of Aadhaar prone to misuse If a person is unable to get ration due to failure of authentication, then any other family member can produce the Aadhaar number to get the benefits. If biometric authentication is attached to every transaction entered into by a person, it would "form a wealth of information" necessitating the need for data protection, the Supreme Court observed on Wednesday. A five judge bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra, hearing a clutch of petitions challenging Aadhaar and its enabling 2016 law, apprised the UIDAI of its apprehensions saying biometric authentication of Aadhaar number in every transaction could lead to aggregation of meta data of citizens, which can be collated and used for many purposes including surveillance. Aadhaar "Fingerprint by itself does not disclose any information. But, when it attaches with all the other information, it forms a wealth of information and then comes th