India, Feb. 2 -- The Supreme Court (SC) ordered the government to make legal arrangements to safeguard individual data on national identity cards. The order aimed to prevent misuse of personal and biometric data, promoting better governance and service delivery reforms.

In its ruling on a case related to the national identity card, the full bench of Chief Justice Prakash Man Singh Raut and Justices Abdul Aziz Musalman and Nripa Dhwoj Niraula instructed the government to secure citizens' details and create the necessary laws. The SC stated, "To guarantee the protection of information with electronic records, the government must implement more reliable legal, policy, structural, and managerial arrangements."

The SC publicly released the ...