A Guide to Litigating Identity Systems
a) The Mauritian Supreme Court identifies the lack of judicial oversight over
the data-sharing regime in which the Mauritian identity system would
operate as particularly problematic, citing it as a reason for the court’s
decision to hold the storage regime to be unconstitutional.260
b) Justice Batts of the Jamaican Supreme Court finds that the lack of a
hearing procedure to be used when Jamaican identity system data is
disclosed to security services renders the provision unconstitutional.261
c) The majority opinion in the Aadhaar judgment applies a judicial process
safeguard in its determination that the national security data-sharing
provisions of the Aadhaar system are unconstitutional.262 Additionally, the
majority finds that Section 47 of the Aadhaar system’s enacting
legislation (which allowed only the government to lodge a complaint
alleging a violation of the system legislation in court) should be amended
to allow for an individual’s right to file a claim and initiate proceedings
when their rights are violated.263
d) The dissenting opinion in the Aadhaar judgment similarly finds Section 47
of the system’s enacting legislation unconstitutional because it “fails to
provide a mechanism to individuals to seek efficacious remedies for
violation of their right to privacy.”264
260 Madhewoo, 2015 SCJ 177 at 32–33.
261 Opinion of Justice Batts, ¶ 366.
262 Aadhaar Judgment, ¶ 447 at 559.
263 Aadhaar Judgment, ¶ 353 at 427.
264 Aadhaar Judgment, ¶ 339(14)(f) of dissent.
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