Aruna Sundararajan, Secretary, Union Electronics and Information Technology Ministry, has reportedly said the new IT law will satisfy privacy and security concerns related to digital payments. Her comments assume significance as Aadhaar's original architect and former Infosys CEO, Nandan Nilekani, recently mooted the need for strong data protection and privacy laws to ensure citizen data in the Unique Identification (UID) database was not misused. To address privacy and security concerns over Aadhaar, the Centre is already in the process of educating government agencies that sensitive data must not be made public and is drafting amendments to the Information Technology (IT) Act to strengthen provisions for data protection and security.