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

Tuesday, August 16, 2011

1549 - Did Mubarak give the FBI the entire national Egyptian ID database?


 Link to Twitter/Wiki Leaks


A real disaster revealed a secret U.S. documents which confirmed that the deposed President Hosni Mubarak and his interior minister Habib al-Adli they handed over the FBI all the data contained in the archive of Egyptian national ID database and fingerprinting and registration code.

This is revealed by documents bearing the slogan «Secret» leaked from the FBI recently to document what was in the files and Wikileaks to confirm the existence of cooperation seriously by former interior minister, Habib al-Adli approval of ousted President Hosni Mubarak when he handed in a secret April 2009 Archive national ID and database fingerprint data and recording the Egyptian Criminal Investigation Federal after he refused to Mr. Omar Suleiman, head of Egyptian intelligence, backed by former Major General Hassan Abdel Rahman, head of SSI dissolved his extradition to America over the years Khaddmtehma.

The incident represents a real disaster almost reach the limit of «employment», where we have a definition in the Dictionary of Intelligence, which includes a description of the sixth to the client as a «work in the government system or in the security system of the state by spying or working against their interests can not doubt his credibility or the patriotism of his people ».

Confidential documents show that U.S. intelligence agencies all kinds, backed by intelligence services, many in the world has always been seeking the Archive and they do not still see that the database Archive Egyptian security is one of the most expensive and most archives of the world system and the abundance of information, regardless of the methods that collect through which, and that the arrival of the Archive of American equipment was regarded as a kind of development and a serious shot him in the war on terrorism, but more dangerous is the fact of dealing and cooperation, which engulfed the deposed dictator and his interior minister with the intelligence services in different world at the expense of the Egyptian national security.

Time was on 13 April 2009, at seven in the evening when he stood at the gate of the Ministry of the Interior a large number of brigades ministry Uniformed and three vehicles all the black plates follow the U.S. Embassy in Cairo makes its way quietly the entire cross-Sheikh Rihan in central Cairo heading to the headquarters building of the Ministry of Interior and almost up to the intersection of Sheikh Rihan and Mansour even clog the roads from all ports and find the gates of the ministry is open to Massaraeiha and to enter until you close the gates and starts from the inside, landing them opening three chapters of the vehicle's initial first down man Itensm air beautiful campaign winds in the city of Cairo on the eve of the Today, the moderate, that man is Robert Mueller, director of the FBI's famous, who held the post since September 4, 2001, and Part II landing a woman known to all, Ms. Margaret Scobey U.S. Ambassador in Cairo, beginning January 23, 2008, and on the red carpet furnished front of the entrance gate leading the Office of the Minister of Interior Habib Al-Adli give up guard for the U.S. lead the way for the public relations officers, accompanied by Egyptian visitors directly to the office «Adli».

In the background is clear to us some of the facts has asked the U.S. delegation based on the desire of director of the FBI «American» Mueller met «Adli» Director of SSI dissolved Major General Hassan Abdel Rahman, the individual and not the presence of the other party, the political background is a lot of tension in relations between the two countries because of the categorical rejection of the U.S. policy of torture in Egypt used systematically, and holds «Mueller» in his hand a thick file documenting the American Administration in many of the torture.

Before their visit to the Ministry of the Interior viable and Foreign Minister Ahmed Abul Gheit, where denial of torture in Egypt brought forth by the Director FBI «Mueller» documentation Egyptian government reports - according to the documents secret new U.S. - that the Interior Ministry and the Mubarak regime had stopped in 2004 for denying the fact that there torture in Egypt and that there is a copy of the security agreement signed between Egypt and the U.S. signed Habib al-Adli require a venue for an annual periodically between the FBI and the State Security in Egypt to discuss the sensitive files between the two countries, and that the United States had obtained recognition from Mubarak himself the existence of torture, But he announced to them that in the narrower borders against terrorist processes only.

U.S. delegation briefed Abul-Gheit further information, where he was given documentation to provide 18 officers Egyptian criminal trials in the period from 2004 to 2007 on charges of torture and of them sentenced to a window to prison terms ranging between one and fifteen years, but they asked «Abul», which appeared like the first time, see the information interpreted the non-implementation of the Egyptian regime to the political agreement are confidential and took place between the U.S. administration and Hosni Mubarak to stop the emergency law in the People's deadline in 2008, and Mubarak announced to America before he signed them to Council members the 454 will agree to stop the law when the emergency command them to do so by the deadline.

«Mubarak» request a deadline for the provision of a new law the so-called terrorism law and was puzzled to find a law to be more serious on the Egypt of the emergency law, but according to the documents highly confidential Vajoh file an investigation of U.S. security separately stating the existence of information peculiar about the involvement of «Adli» in the events of terrorism or that is the pressure of its policies of oppression and led to those events and their papers, which stated: "In a 2005 bombing of a trilogy in Sharm el-Sheikh expected 88 people and 200 injured, and all of Egypt closes the security grip it - in 2006 a terrorist attack and the bombing of three in the city of Dahab tourism in South Sinai predicted 24 Guetalaz In February terrorist bombing in Khan El-Khalili sign dead a young Frenchman, "and put the U.S. delegation investigations Ali Mubarak does not have it except that they are asked to meet with« Adli »and« Abdul Rahman »and declares his consent to any request they ask him to even close the the subject Vtkon opportunity for them.

From here the delegation found the American road paved completely to a U.S. demand is important for the U.S. intelligence agencies, a copy of the archive number of Egyptian national and a copy of a database record of criminal and civil for the Egyptians on the grounds that America needs the data to be under the hands I have to investigate any issues related to terrorism to be their investigations quick and on the basis of a wealth of information such as those found in the databases of the state security of Egypt, even they noted that day to this Archive has documented only the Egyptians but also documented for the citizens of the Russian Federation, Pakistan, Afghanistan Oppe a large proportion of citizens of other Arab states, hence the importance of the claim for a copy of it.

In meetings Mubarak implicitly threatened that they will be deployed around the world, investigations of terrorist operations and information about particular that those operations had claimed the lives of foreigners could turn the world on the Egyptian regime had arrived for the mere suspicion, and that «Adli» was playing in the shadows.

Strange that the document proves the existence of information bizarre truth about the separation, even if part of the policy work of Hassan Abdul-Rahman and Habib al-Adli While we believe that Adli, working double always with Mubarak, who is driven, we find Hassan Abdul Rahman seemed coherent to the U.S. demand, and make sure the documents he refused to surrender Archive security Egypt over a period of over years of service, but we find the same documents they they met also with Omar Suleiman, Egypt's intelligence chief has announced the rejection of intelligence, the explicit request of the U.S. but he asked them to discuss the Mubarak Al-Adli, where the decision is in the final sovereign decision of the President and implementation of sole Adeli, which is under Archive Egyptian his disposal.

Documents confirm that Mubarak has asked «Adli» and explained to him in a private meeting between the seriousness of the file and Thagoh and that no objection to the delivery of Archive as long as they will make to another state and will be used in the service of the world against terrorism, and agreed-Adli immediately, but he asked Mubarak involving Abdul Rahman in the subject , where the Archive is also in possession of, but «Mubarak» according to the documents that the most serious Adli Abdel-Rahman and Sulaiman arm's too much patriotism as described by Mubarak, who came to the topic listed in the documents, and asked Adli work too far from Rahman.

Another document proving that the Director of the FBI Robert Mueller on his visit to Cairo in the period from 8 to February 9, 2006, met in the presence of Francis Richard Denis former U.S. ambassador to Cairo with Mubarak and Al-Adli Abdel-Rahman and Sulaiman were asked to expand the size of the security agreement between SSI and the detective U.S. federal and offered them the exchange of Archive Security Code and the Iraqi Civil Masri is that they did not seem interested in that day and agreed to expand cooperation with regard to the provision of the United States to give the training more to members of the body where we find that most of them have received advanced training courses in America and they are practically and officially have the largest Certificates professional in the field but also excelled on the officers of the world.

Data meetings, we find a great deal of talk about talk «Mubarak» and «Al-Adli» always on the extent of the Muslim Brotherhood on Egypt, but we are surprised when we see that the talk about the Muslim Brotherhood was taking actually more than two thirds of the time of each meeting and that the Americans were taking the modern argument to America must be delivered for use by the Egyptian Archive America to fight with the Muslim Brotherhood «Mubarak».

Other information found in documents, tried all the way Mubarak to dodge in 2006 for non-delivery Archive has been proposed to them that day Send Omar Suleiman to Damascus to ask the leadership of Hamas to halt Palestinian attacks on Israel and that Mubarak had succeeded in doing that would be the gift of the American system and that has been made, including be a partner of the United States.

Visit the other has and find their data in the same documents between the parties in November 28, 2007, demanding also access the archives of Egypt because of its importance for the war on terror was not without hearing talk about the seriousness of the Muslim Brotherhood and the need to help U.S. authorities the Mubarak regime to overcome them.

«Higher» returned to his office and is designed to implicate Rahman Aftlbh to his office one last time to consult on the subject in the meeting, lists the document that Abdul Rahman unlike the rest of the assistants Adli was not fear but he is inside the ministry is stronger than Adli itself and in the meeting refused to Abdul Rahman delivered Archive Egyptian and threatened him Pfdha and asked him to show them that the security of the State who want to self-disclosure revealed that Abdul Rahman would be a work of detection in the minutes and the result Stsalhm few hours later so out of pressure-Adli, the latter asked him to leave.

Documents prove that the Al-Adli has decided to act on his own and arranged for the delegation of the U.S. what they asked for without knowing any official of the Ministry of Interior until Abdel-Rahman remained the same day he left the ministry does not know that the Archive may Adli handed to them on condition of exploitation are harmful to Egypt.

It is known that this archive is located within the internal network security can not be accessed from outside the country or for example, how the FBI will get updates on the Archive is the information that occur daily update on Alerchiven deletion and addition? Bewildered questions we did not find an answer to it in documents that merely telling.

Documents confirmed that there is a written agreement signed in secret between Adli and the U.S. is that one does not find the text of that agreement until now, whether in the possession of Al-Adli, or between documents left by the former president to keep the topic simply listed in the top secret documents were leaked from the FBI.