In 2009, I became extremely concerned with the concept of Unique Identity for various reasons. Connected with many like minded highly educated people who were all concerned.
On 18th May 2010, I started this Blog to capture anything and everything I came across on the topic. This blog with its million hits is a testament to my concerns about loss of privacy and fear of the ID being misused and possible Criminal activities it could lead to.
In 2017 the Supreme Court of India gave its verdict after one of the longest hearings on any issue. I did my bit and appealed to the Supreme Court Judges too through an On Line Petition.
In 2019 the Aadhaar Legislation has been revised and passed by the two houses of the Parliament of India making it Legal. I am no Legal Eagle so my Opinion carries no weight except with people opposed to the very concept.
In 2019, this Blog now just captures on a Daily Basis list of Articles Published on anything to do with Aadhaar as obtained from Daily Google Searches and nothing more. Cannot burn the midnight candle any longer.
"In Matters of Conscience, the Law of Majority has no place"- Mahatma Gandhi
Ram Krishnaswamy
Sydney, Australia.

Aadhaar

The UIDAI has taken two successive governments in India and the entire world for a ride. It identifies nothing. It is not unique. The entire UID data has never been verified and audited. The UID cannot be used for governance, financial databases or anything. It’s use is the biggest threat to national security since independence. – Anupam Saraph 2018

When I opposed Aadhaar in 2010 , I was called a BJP stooge. In 2016 I am still opposing Aadhaar for the same reasons and I am told I am a Congress die hard. No one wants to see why I oppose Aadhaar as it is too difficult. Plus Aadhaar is FREE so why not get one ? Ram Krishnaswamy

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.-Mahatma Gandhi

In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.Mahatma Gandhi

“The invasion of privacy is of no consequence because privacy is not a fundamental right and has no meaning under Article 21. The right to privacy is not a guaranteed under the constitution, because privacy is not a fundamental right.” Article 21 of the Indian constitution refers to the right to life and liberty -Attorney General Mukul Rohatgi

“There is merit in the complaints. You are unwittingly allowing snooping, harassment and commercial exploitation. The information about an individual obtained by the UIDAI while issuing an Aadhaar card shall not be used for any other purpose, save as above, except as may be directed by a court for the purpose of criminal investigation.”-A three judge bench headed by Justice J Chelameswar said in an interim order.

Legal scholar Usha Ramanathan describes UID as an inverse of sunshine laws like the Right to Information. While the RTI makes the state transparent to the citizen, the UID does the inverse: it makes the citizen transparent to the state, she says.

Good idea gone bad
I have written earlier that UID/Aadhaar was a poorly designed, unreliable and expensive solution to the really good idea of providing national identification for over a billion Indians. My petition contends that UID in its current form violates the right to privacy of a citizen, guaranteed under Article 21 of the Constitution. This is because sensitive biometric and demographic information of citizens are with enrolment agencies, registrars and sub-registrars who have no legal liability for any misuse of this data. This petition has opened up the larger discussion on privacy rights for Indians. The current Article 21 interpretation by the Supreme Court was done decades ago, before the advent of internet and today’s technology and all the new privacy challenges that have arisen as a consequence.

Rajeev Chandrasekhar, MP Rajya Sabha

“What is Aadhaar? There is enormous confusion. That Aadhaar will identify people who are entitled for subsidy. No. Aadhaar doesn’t determine who is eligible and who isn’t,” Jairam Ramesh

But Aadhaar has been mythologised during the previous government by its creators into some technology super force that will transform governance in a miraculous manner. I even read an article recently that compared Aadhaar to some revolution and quoted a 1930s historian, Will Durant.Rajeev Chandrasekhar, Rajya Sabha MP

“I know you will say that it is not mandatory. But, it is compulsorily mandatorily voluntary,” Jairam Ramesh, Rajya Saba April 2017.

August 24, 2017: The nine-judge Constitution Bench rules that right to privacy is “intrinsic to life and liberty”and is inherently protected under the various fundamental freedoms enshrined under Part III of the Indian Constitution

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the World; indeed it's the only thing that ever has"

“Arguing that you don’t care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don’t care about free speech because you have nothing to say.” -Edward Snowden

In the Supreme Court, Meenakshi Arora, one of the senior counsel in the case, compared it to living under a general, perpetual, nation-wide criminal warrant.

Had never thought of it that way, but living in the Aadhaar universe is like living in a prison. All of us are treated like criminals with barely any rights or recourse and gatekeepers have absolute power on you and your life.

Announcing the launch of the # BreakAadhaarChainscampaign, culminating with events in multiple cities on 12th Jan. This is the last opportunity to make your voice heard before the Supreme Court hearings start on 17th Jan 2018. In collaboration with @no2uidand@rozi_roti.

UIDAI's security seems to be founded on four time tested pillars of security idiocy

1) Denial

2) Issue fiats and point finger

3) Shoot messenger

4) Bury head in sand.

God Save India

Monday, February 12, 2018

12916 - Aadhaar Related Articles Dated 11th February 2018



Benefits can't be denied for want of Aadhaar: UIDAI
Times of India
"UIDAI has taken a serious note of some of the cases reported in media recently in which it is claimed that the want of Aadhaar has resulted in the denial of essential services like hospitalisation or medical help by some lower level staffs causing grave inconvenience to people. While real facts behind ...

No essential service can be denied for want of Aadhaar: UIDAI - Times of India

UIDAI says no essential service can be denied for want of Aadhaar - Livemint

UIDAI: Nobody can be denied essential services over Aadhaar - The Indian Express


'Fertiliser subsidy hit by Aadhaar'
The Hindu
Companies and partnership firm plantations in the South, cultivating tea, coffee, rubber and spices, are finding it difficult to obtain fertiliser subsidy since January 1, 2018, as rules mandate production of Aadhaar for the same. According to United Planters' Association of Southern India chairman T.





Aadhaar not required for emergency health services: National Health Mission
The Hindu
Aadhaar is not required to access emergency health services,” said Manoj Jhalani, additional secretary and MD, National Health Mission, on Saturday. “We have initiated an enquiry and if negligence is proved strict action will be taken.'' He was speaking a day after Gurgaon's Civil Hospital allegedly ...
Aadhaar gets in way of USG, woman delivers in cycle stand at Gurgaon hospital - Times of India
Denied entry into Gurgaon hospital over Aadhaar, woman delivers baby outside - citytoday
Denied Entry Over Aadhaar, woman delivers baby outside gurgaon Hospital - Medical Dialogues


Technology weekly wrap: Cognizant bolsters IT hopes; Aadhaar controversy continues
Moneycontrol.com
While his speeches took on the ruling party Bharatiya Janata Party's biggest rival Indian National Congress, the Prime Minister left no doubt about the fact that Aadhaar is not just a technology framework or system intended to plug leakages in subsidy programmes or prevent frauds, but is in fact, every bit ...





Aadhaar and adharma are beginning to merge
The Hindu
A stand-up comic, friend of mine, had a terrific idea for a sketch recently. A baby is born in a hospital but is not allowed to leave till it can show its Aadhaar number. That was the nub of it, although he – like all good comics – stretched it to include stories of India's hospitals being more overcrowded than its ...





Work in Aadhaar centres put on hold
Deccan Chronicle
Chennai: Public seeking changes in Aadhaar cards at taluk offices are put into hardship as the Tamil Nadu Arasu Cable TV Corporation Limited (TACTV), which operates numerous Aadhaar registration and correction centres (including at taluk offices) across the city, stopped working due to technical ...





65% ration card holders revert with Aadhaar numbers
Oherald
Even as the process of collating the database was underway, the Minister claimed they have already seeded Aadhaar in ration cards of close to 97 percent of the forms received. “The data entry is underway. The details have been received in hardcopy, which would be transferred to the system. Based on ...





Shop making fake Aadhar cards &driving licences raided, 2 held
Times of India
MUMBAI: The crime branch of the city police found dozens of fake documents—Aadhaar cards, election cards, PAN cards, driving licence and vehicle smart cards—in a raid on a shop in Masjid Bunder on Friday. Two men, Sunil Chaudhry, 35 and Ataullah Malik, 25 have been arrested from the shop, ...
2 held in fake documents racket - The Hindu


LIVE: Modi UAE visit day 2: PM talks about Aadhaar, says 8 billion dollar worth 'leakage' plugged
India Today (blog)
LIVE: Modi UAE visit day 2: PM talks about Aadhaar, says 8 billion dollar worth 'leakage' plugged. Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed the Indian diaspora at the ... With Aadhaar, 8 billion dollar worth of leakages have been plugged. There's a digital payment revolution happening in India: PM Modi.
The big news: Army kills four militants after attack on Jammu military camp, and 9 other top stories - Scroll.in


2 held in south Mumbai for making forged government documents
Hindustan Times
The accused use to charge Rs2,000 to make a fake Aadhaar card, Rs800 to 1,000 for PAN card, Rs10,000 for driving license and Rs1,000 for voter id card, said police inspector Prashant Raje of unit 2. “We have been questioning the accused and chances are that more people are involved in the case ...







Renuka Chowdhury Should Take a Cue From Nehru's Legacy of Decorum
The Quint
She burst into a piercing laugh when PM Modi, in his reply to Congress' claim of initiating the Aadhaar had said that the then Home Minister LK Advani had in 1998 spoken about an all-purpose national ID in the Rajya Sabha. The laughter interrupted the PM's reply and what happened next is for all to ...





Moving towards a malnutrition free India
Outlook India
Jharkhand [India], Feb 10 : On March 29, 2017, Jharkhand Chief Secretary Rajbala Verma issued a letter making the Aadhar Card mandatory from April 2017. It was also stated in the letter that those users who do not have Aadhaar card at the district/state level should be encouraged to make it and also ...





Bibek Debroy sums up 2017 in limericks
BW Businessworld
New Delhi, Feb 11 (PTI) From GST to Aadhaar, road renaming to anti-Romeo squads, and no-fly lists to Delhi pollution, noted economist Bibek Debroy explains with the help of limericks the key developments of 2017. He has come up with "The Book of Limericks", a compilation of hilarious five-liners on ...





Digital health card for Delhi residents by year-end
United News of India
... Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) of Delhi government on Friday floated Expression of Interest (EoI). While floating the EoI, the DGHS laid out certain terms for the participating vendors in the bidding. It said the vendor will have to arrange Aadhaar certified Biometric Machines for Aadhaar ...





Hyderabad Metro Rail making database of travellers
Deccan Chronicle
As the Nation is debating over the misuse of the 16-digit Unique Identification number of citizens, this organisation seeking Aadhaar details is certainly raising eyebrows. “Initially I was asked to give my Aadhaar number. When I questioned this, the official at the counter said that any ID proof is valid,” one ...
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