Even as India debates over Aadhaar and its growing prevalence in decision making, a major breach has caught the Bengaluru police foot in mouth, raising grave concerns over privacy, or rather the lack of it. A new report in the Economic Times says, the Bengaluru police have been accidently sharing the phone numbers of thousands of citizens reporting various crimes in the center of India's high-tech industry. They've apparently been sharing them since 2015.

According to the report, the Bengaluru police control room that operates via the handle @BCPCR, has since April 2015 put out over 46,000 tweets "containing the numbers of complainants calling the emergency number 100." The list, in addition, also includes contact details of citizens who (had) reached out to the cops through Bengaluru police's Suraksha emergency mobile application.