Still dealing with leak fallout, NADRA officials resist investigations

There appears to be no central government policy in Pakistan for how to handle a catastrophic divulging and selling of citizens’ personal data. Large leaks of personal data, allegedly absconded from the National Database Registration Authority, seem to have happened periodically since at least 2018. It is difficult to ascertain with confidence when this landmark leak of digital ID data took place. Alarming news bulletins involving NADRA, Pakistan’s central government digital ID database, have been popping up since the beginning of July. Article Topicsdata privacy | data protection | digital ID | identity management | NADRA | Pakistan