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, April 30, 2018

13403 - Aadhaar Articles Dated 30th April 2018


NDTV
New Delhi: The UIDAI, the body that governs Aadhaar, has maintained that its database is secure with them. But there have been reports of multiple government departments using the Aadhaar data and have been found disclosing private details of lakhs of citizens. Despite these leaks being reported, ...







Financial Express
Ever since the five-judge Constitution bench judging the constitutional validity of Aadhaar said, on Wednesday, that the Supreme Court had never directed that mobile phones be linked to Aadhaar numbers—when the government ordered this last year in March, it said it was the result of an SC order—all ...








India Today
Do you remember the Department of Telecom (DoT) order in 2017 that made it mandatory for Indians to link Aadhaar number with SIM cards? The order is no longer available on the DoT website. In that order, the government had said that the Aadhaar-mobile number linking was mandatory because the ...




Economic Times
How to open an NPS account online. ET Bureau|. Apr 30, 2018, 06.30 AM IST. 0Comments. ee3 While investing online, Aadhaar should have current address and mobile number and PAN should be linked to bank account.






MediaNama.com
“This has enabled our 2,000 Business Correspondent Agents for Aadhaar based Cash Withdrawals & Cash Deposits”, the company had said then, adding that it enables “card less and PIN-less Aadhaar ATM service.” and “Using the PayNEARBY mobile application on a smartphone, a Retailer can ...






The Telegraph India
Computer scientists Manindra Agrawal and Sandeep Shukla hope to use a mix of mathematics and cryptography techniques to develop the new system that they say has potential applications across governance - from land records to income tax transactions to access to Aadhaar data. "This will have ...






The New Indian Express
KOCHI:Panish Hangal, partner, Arka Advisory Services India, Bengaluru, said our legal system must be further strengthened to tackle Aadhaar database leak. Speaking at a seminar on 'Cyber Security for Business Resilience' organized by Indo- American Chamber of Commerce here, he pointed out ...






The Hindu
The Tribal welfare department recently wrote to the State-Level Bankers Committee (SLBC) asking it to consider the Aadhaar number as valid identity of land. Further, since, the title holders of the land have rights —cultivation and habitation by inheritance, and cannot be sold or gifted, the documents like ...






The Asian Age
The Supreme Court has specifically directed that benefits can't be denied just because someone doesn't have an Aadhaar card, for instance. Madhya Pradesh governor Anandiben Patel, who's no stranger to administration being a former Gujarat CM, seems to have forgotten she's now a ceremonial ...






Business Standard
While EPFO was able to paint a clearer picture of the payroll stock with Aadhaar being the unique identifier for its subscribers, the ESIC data carries with it a high probability of duplication as employees had different registration numbers for multiple jobs. The monthly age-wise payroll data showed that the ...






The Hitavada
Aadhaar enrollment and updation centres are functioning in more than 11,000 post offices, which will benefit general public, especially poor and backward. All 473 such centres in Madhya Pradesh are functioning and in a short span, 3,121 enrollments and 22,323 Aadhaar updation has been done in ...






Deccan Herald
The government has also waived off MDR charges on transactions of up to Rs 2,000 made through debit cards, BHIM UPI or Aadhaar-enabled payment systems to promote digital transactions starting from January 2018, for the next two years. However, the usage of cards have not picked up. Recently ...






The Indian Express
A year ago, Rajaram Desale, a farmer in Thane whose six-year-old son is suffering from blood cancer, was travelling in a bus from Shahapur to Mumbai, when he lost the photocopies of his son's medical documents, Aadhaar and ration cards. Desale's son, Bharat, was diagnosed in April 2016 and had ...






Economic Times
For instance, freebies were distributed in the Islampur slum only after voters produced Aadhaar, ID card and voter ID. Rukhsaar (name changed), 22, said that only the three women in their family of five have enrolled in the voters' list. “We received RS 1,000 each. Cookers or kitchen equipment would ...






The Hindu
The CM, who held a review meeting on Labour Welfare at Pragati Bhavan here on Saturday, instructed officials to prepare a report on number of workers in the unorganised sector, organised sector and what measures were taken for their health, welfare and insurance. He said Aadhaar should be linked ...






The New Indian Express
These apps collect details such as your salary slip, bank account, aadhaar, address and other personal details. Many of them use Artificial Intelligence (AI) as a tool to crawl through your social media to gauge the creditworthiness of the person trying to avail the loan. Little known to those availing the ...






The New Indian Express
An estimate based on various factors such as occupancy rate, season, demand etc.To stay at any hotel in the city or anywhere else in India, one needs to provide any photo identity card such as passport, voter identity card, aadhaar card, pan card, driving licence, Photo ID issued by any government ...






The Hindu
An alert pesticide shop owner saved the life of a man, who reportedly tried to commit suicide on Sunday. The victim, a resident of Yenamalakuduru, visited the shop near the Vinayaka temple under the One Town police limits and asked for a pesticide bottle. When the owner asked for his Aadhaar card, ...






The Telegraph India
Of the 4,100 child labourers who have been registered with the CLTS, 1,454 kids' bank accounts have already been linked to the Aadhaar card so that they can be directly given the benefits of various schemes. The state government provides Rs 25,000 from the chief minister's relief fund to rescued child ...






The Tribune
He said the All India Bank Officers' Confederation (AIBOC) has been opposing the move of the Central Government through the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) to slap an additional burden of Aadhaar enrolment on selected branches of public sector banks right from its inception.






Times of India
LUCKNOW: The overall pass percentage in the UP Secondary Education Board — one of the world's biggest examinations — has dipped sharply due to stringent anti-copying measures taken up by the state administration. This year the number of students skipping the exam also rose to 11.3 lakh from ...






India Today
Sharma said Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath wants the Tahsil Diwas to take form of a Sampurna Samadhan Diwas to resolve the problems of the people including those related to ration cards, Aadhaar, pension schemes and various certificates. He said the Centres schemes such as the Prime Minister ...






The Statesman
... 57,127 candidates appeared for the AP SSC Board examination this year out of which 56,035 were regular candidates. Students who appeared for the examinations had to carry their Aadhaar cards inside the exam halls as was mandated by the Board. Results can also be checked on examresults.net.