Concerns, misgivings, unease aside, e-NIC set to invade individual privacy
By Chandani Kirinde-Sunday, August 31, 2014
The data collection programme of all Sri Lanka’s citizens over the age of 15, with a view to establishing a database, some of which would be included in an electronic National Identity Card (e-NIC), has drawn criticism from Opposition legislators. They say it would lead to an invasion of individual privacy, which a senior Government official in charge of the programme, refutes, saying the data collected would benefit a majority of the people.
