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

Wednesday, February 14, 2018

12960 - Missing Bengaluru techie case: Prime suspect’s Jio SIM issued through Aadhaar fraud - - The News Minuite

Missing Bengaluru techie case: Prime suspect’s Jio SIM issued through Aadhaar fraud

The police have also come up with a sketch of the prime suspect based on descriptions provided by the Jio vendor and the SIM card agent.

From flying drones to checking second-hand car dealerships, the Bengaluru police have been pursuing several avenues to look for 29-year-old missing techie Ajitabh Kumar, who went missing about two months ago. The Special Investigation Team (SIT) has now stumbled across an Aadhaar-phone linking scam, which has created yet another challenge for the investigators.

Investigators have found that one of the phone numbers being investigated – presumed to be of the prime suspect in the case - had been linked to the Aadhaar card of another unrelated lady, without her knowledge. A cheating case has been registered at the Whitefield Police Station against Reliance Jio, a Jio SIM card vendor and SIM card agent from Kolar for allegedly using Aadhaar details of other persons to issue a SIM card to the unidentified prime suspect.

“We have arrested the SIM card vendor Anand and also the Jio agent Shivu from Kolar. Reliance Jio has also been booked as they have not been careful about whom they are issuing SIM cards to,” an investigating officer said.

The police have also come up with the sketch of the person, they believe is the prime suspect, based on the descriptions given by the SIM card agent and the vendor. The police are now trying to see if the sketch matches the profiles of anyone in the criminal database. 

Investigating officers who have been looking at Ajitabh’s call records got in touch with Shabana, a lady from Kolar, as that was the only number from another district in Karnataka to have called Ajitabh’s phone.

Shabana is a 45-year-old beedi worker in Kolar’s Rahmath Nagar. On being questioned, Shabana told the police that she had bought an Aircel SIM card from Anand a few days ago. The SIM card has stopped functioning two weeks after she bought it, she told the police.

“Shabana had given her Aadhaar card details to Anand as he had said that it was mandatory. When her SIM card stopped working, she went back to Anand and he is said to have asked for a copy of her Aadhaar card and Shabana furnished it. She says that she had no idea about Anand issuing a SIM card in her name to the prime suspect. Anand has issued fake SIM cards to many other people as well,” the investigating officer added.

Meanwhile, Reliance Jio has issued a statement stating that they will offer their full support into the investigation.

Ajitabh, who worked for a British telecom company in Bengaluru, had left his apartment in Whitefield on December 18, 2017 to sell his Maruti CIAZ car. Ajitabh wanted to sell the car to fund his education at IIM-Kolkata. He was on his way to meet a buyer he had met on OLX.

When Ajitabh did not return home the next day, his roommates began looking for him. When they could not track him down, they registered a missing persons complaint. The police later filed an abduction case.


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