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

Friday, April 27, 2018

13366 - Aadhaar Articles Dated 27th April 2018



Aadhaar [Day 34]: Certain Provisions Of The Act Have To Be Struck Down Or Reconciled So That ...
Live Law
On Day 34 of the Aadhaar final hearing i.e., Thursday, advocate Gopal Sankaranarayanan resumed his submissions before the Supreme Court five-judge bench on behalf of the Centre for Civil Society, an intervenor. He submitted that the Aadhaar Act as a whole does not violate the fundamental right to ...

Aadhaar hearing: The Act is a well balanced law of which a few provisions should be struck down ... - Firstpost


Two Aadhaar leaks in two days: UID numbers of 89 lakh MNREGA workers on AP website
The News Minute
In what could be considered an embarrassment for the Andhra Pradesh government, an independent researcher has highlighted two cases in two days of Aadhaar details of citizens being leaked online. A day after it came to light that the state government potentially made public the Aadhaar data of at ...

Aadhaar numbers of 89 lakh rural workers put up online - The Hindu

Aadhaar leak exposes 12-digit numbers of 89 lakh MGNREGA workers - BGR India

Yet Another Government Website Leaks Aadhaar Data of 7 Million Children in AP - Beebom (blog)


Telcos say just obeyed DoT orders on linking mobile nos with Aadhaar
Economic Times
The government, especially the DoT, has been left red faced for having apparently misinterpreted the Supreme Court's February 6, 2017 observation and mandated linking of mobile phone numbers with Aadhaar. The process itself, and the incessant messaging by telcos urging users to link their mobile ...





PAN-Aadhaar linkage does not help curb scams: Lawyer to Supreme Court
Economic Times
Arguing before a five-judge constitution bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra, which is hearing a clutch of petitions challenging Aadhaar and its enabling 2016 law, the lawyer referred to various recent financial frauds including the Nirav Modi scam and said none of these could have been avoided ...

PAN-Aadhaar linkage does not help curb scams: Lawyer to SC - Moneycontrol.com

PAN-Aadhaar linkage does not help curb scams: Lawyer Gopal Sankaranarayanan to Supreme ... - Financial Express

Aadhaar linkages case: SC not happy with idea of Aadhaar as universal identity - India Legal


Didn't Say It's Mandatory to Link Aadhaar With Mobile Numbers: Supreme Court
The Wire
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Wednesday raised questions over the government's decision ordering mandatory seeding of mobile numbers with Aadhaar and said its earlier order on mandatory authentication of users was used as a “tool”. A five-judge constitution bench headed by Chief Justice ...

Aadhaar and SIM cards - The Hindu

'Aadhaar-SIM linking based on SC orders' - The Hindu

SC had asked government to link Aadhaar with mobiles: Attorney General - Livemint


Telecom companies ignore Supreme Court, pester users on Aadhaar link
Gadgets Now
NEW DELHI: On Wednesday, the Supreme Court clarified that it had never asked for mobile phones to be linked to Aadhaar numbers. So, can you look forward to being spared from constant pesky calls and unwanted messages, mails and notifications from mobile service providers urging you to link or ...







Why Telecom Firms Will Keep Asking Users To Link Mobile SIM Cards To Aadhaar
BloombergQuint
The voice and text messages reminding you to link your mobile SIM card to Aadhaar is unlikely to stop anytime soon even as the Supreme Court recently questioned the compulsory linkage of the biometric identity. As things stand, customers have to provide their Aadhaar to activate a new SIM card, ...





Government opposes, people favour linking Aadhaar to voter ID
The New Indian Express
NEW DELHI: The government may be against linking of voter ID card with Aadhaar, but it seems people are in favour of it. In a survey conducted by online community platform Local- Circles, 80 per cent people supported linking of voter ID with Aadhaar as they felt this would help in eliminating bogus ...





Baby Girl Enrolled For Aadhar Within 2 Minutes Of Being Born
NDTV
New Delhi: Saachi, a new-born girl from Maharashtra, has become the youngest Indian child to get enrolled for Aadhaar, a 12-digit unique number issued by the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI). Saachi's parents enrolled their newborn daughter for Aadhaar within 1.48 minutes of her birth ...





KMC to start Aadhaar enrolment camps in borough offices from May
Millennium Post
Kolkata: The Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) will start holding camps for Aadhaar enrolment at its borough offices in the city, from the beginning of May. The decision of the civic body comes in the wake of demand for citizens to introduce such facilities for smooth enrolment and correction of ...





Aadhaar linkage plugged pilferage in PDS: Zulfkar
Greater Kashmir
“It has enabled end-to-end use of ICT ranging from ration card digitization, Aadhaar seeding, commodity allocation to FPS, distribution to targeted beneficiaries, generation of reports & finally displaying all the data/ statistics on the web portal thus greatly improving efficiency, transparency, minimizing
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