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, September 12, 2018

13874 - Aadhaar Articles Dated 30th August 2018



Times of India
NEW DELHI. A fake post doing rounds on social media claims that furnishing their Aadhaar cards was mandatory for all the children and women who ...






Economic Times
Retirement fund body EPFO has allowed enrolment of new members without Aadhaar in Assam, Meghalaya and Nagaland, on account of low ...






Times of India
The aim is to replicate the success of India's Aadhaar -- the world's largest biometric ID program which has enrolled about 1.2 billion people since its ...






Times of India
NEW DELHI: Tracking of Aadhaar IDs used fraudulently in the Uttar Pradesh PDS scam has led to strong proof against the wrong doers as their ...






Financial Express
The list of ration shop beneficiaries, after all, had the Aadhaar numbers of each person, so once the fingerprint of someone who came to buy rations ...






The Indian Express
The report further claimed that only those who were able to show their Aadhaar cards were allowed to tie rakhi on Modi's wrist. However, the Prime ...




The Indian Express
The food and civil supplies department has got 22 FIRs registered after an ongoing inquiry exposed large-scale misuse of Aadhaar cards to divert ...






Hindustan Times
Mayalyn Magracia is one of millions of undocumented Filipinos. “Like an alien,” is how the housekeeper in Manila describes what she felt when she ...





Times of India
MADIKERI: To ensure flood victims are not denied relief for lack of identity papers, the revenue department has launched Aadhaar centres in relief ...






Security Boulevard
It has further mandated the agencies that the encryption keys used to encrypt the Aadhaar data should be stored securely in a Hardware Security ...




The New Indian Express
The Rural Department and Panchayat Raj (RDPR) will soon launch a new system where Aadhaar card holders can get their details rectified at their ...






Feminism in India (blog)
Aadhaar is a unique identification number which aims at 'easing' out service delivery in India. However the unregulated implementation has produced ...



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Times of India
BENGALURU: The International Institute of Information Technology, Bengaluru (IIITB) will help develop an Aadhaar-like digital platform for Morocco to ...






Moneycontrol.com
Morocco is set to get an Aadhaar-like platform for its citizens with help from the International Institute of Information Technology, Bengaluru (IIITB).






The Hindu
The standard address format, which is usually associated with an alphanumeric house number followed by street name, locality and other parameters ...






LatestLY
New Delhi, August 29: Tracking of Aadhaar cards fraudulently used in the Uttar Pradesh PDS scam had led to strong proof against the offenders as ...






Times of India
“Our suspicions grew after we received complaints that some of the ration dealers were conducting multiple transactions in a month through Aadhaar ...






findBIOMETRICS
Sales have been channeled primarily through Crossmatch's domestic partner AqTronics Technologies, and are of course being driven by Aadhaar, ...






Economic Times
Sharma also said he doesn't regret making his Aadhaar public, and added that his act has showed that the unique number is absolutely safe.






Deccan Herald
An account can be opened at the doorstep with the help of postman by furnishing the details of Aadhaar and phone number and an OTP will reach the ...






RuralMarketing (press release) (blog)
These micro ATMs are built on an Android POS and will also have value-added services, not only limited to Aadhaar, PAN Cards, utility bills and so on ...






Times Now
The PIL seeks to link Aadhaar or any other government recognised document with the social media account of a user so that the person posting ...






The Telegraph India
It is, of course, true that a big-data operation like the Aadhaar project has led to concerns about how safely guarded such data might be in the hands of ...






Security Boulevard
Before you rush to select a vendor to implement Aadhaar Data Vault, it is imperative that you look at the Aadhaar Data Vault ecosystem in totality, ...






Times of India
Why is the BRTS insisting on lengthy documentation, which also includes coercing commuters to part with their Aadhaar information and also give ...