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

Sunday, September 29, 2013

4671 - Another deluge of Articles on Aadhaar following Supreme Court Ruling on Aadhaar

Business Standard
Solicitor General Mohan Parasaran, appearing for the Centre in the PIL challenging the compulsory issuance of Aadhaar numbers said the Aadhaar card was in ...


Times of India
Aadhaar, the 12-digit unique identification number issued to individuals, is an ambitious attempt to marry advances in technology to governance. If Aadhaar ...


NEW DELHI, Sep 24, 2013 (Menafn - Mint - McClatchy-Tribune Information Services via COMTEX) --The Supreme Court on Monday, in an interim order, said the ...


Hindustan Times
In a setback to the Nandan Nilekani-led UIDAI's Aadhaar project, the Intelligence Bureau has told the government that Aadhaar-enrolled numbers were not a ...


Business Standard
The Supreme Court has issued an interim order, not a final one, asking that no citizen should be deprived of benefits for not possessing an Aadhaar number or ...


Siliconindia.com
Bangalore: The Supreme Court had recently ruled that Aadhaar scheme should only be issued to those with verified nationality of India. It also further asserted ...


Times of India
KOCHI: The state higher education department is contemplating if it should withdraw an earlier order linking student scholarships with Aadhaar.


Daily News & Analysis
Many Bangaloreans are gladly saying “I told you so!” since the Supreme Court on Monday ruled that the Unique Identification Card cannot be mandatory to avail ...


Hindustan Times
A day after questions were raised in the Supreme Court over the legality of the Aadhaar project, the government on Tuesday fast-tracked a draft bill to give legal ...


Business Standard
With Supreme Court ruling that social benefits cannot be denied to those without Aadhaar cards, Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit today said her government was ...


Economic Times
Aadhaar, unless the Supreme Court changes its ruling in the final judgement, has ... programmes after Monday's Supreme Court interim ruling on Aadhaar?


Times of India
MARGAO: Welcoming the ruling of the Supreme Court that Aadhaar cards are not mandatory, the Navelim civic and consumer forum has demanded that the ...


Business Standard
The government got into a damage control mode soon after the Supreme Court issued an interim order on Monday ruling that the unique identity (UID), ...


Economic Times
According to an affidavit submitted by the Planning Commission in the Supreme Court, "Aadhaar is issued to residents on voluntary basis. The consent of the ...


Economic Times
The Supreme Court's interim order on Aadhaar is unfortunate and should be remedied in the final verdict. True, the government should not deny benefits to ...


Hindu Business Line
Andhra Pradesh Grameena Vikas Bank (APGVB) seeded Aadhaar Cards to 64,665 savings bank accounts in a special campaign conducted for the purpose.


Moneylife
After getting a rebuttal from the Supreme Court, the union government said it will push for passage of a long-pending Bill that would provide legal status to the ...


Moneylife
Rajeev Chandrasekhar, an independent member of the Rajya Sabha, who is also a member of the Standing Committee on Finance, has requested Prime ...


Daily Bhaskar
Your Aadhaar card consists of a 12-digit unique number which is issued by the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) to all residents of the country.


Deccan Herald
The government is planning to approach the Supreme Court for modification of its interim order directing Aadhaar card will not be mandatory for availing of ...


TruthDive
New Delhi, Sep 24 (TruthDive): The Supreme Court on Monday issued a notification to the centre to ensure that no citizen of India is denied a benefit or service ...


Jagran Josh
The Supreme Court of India on 23 September 2013 held that Aadhaar cards or Unique Identification number (UID) will not be mandatory for availing services or ...


BBC News
The Aadhaar (Foundation) programme aims to provide a unique identity number to citizens to help transfer welfare funds to the country's poor. The government ...


Techworld.com
"I signed up for Aadhaar only to ensure that I continue to get a gas cylinder at reasonable rates," said an executive in Bangalore who had queued up a few ...


The Hindu
Hats off to retired judge K. Puttaswamy for his public interest litigation plea which has resulted in a landmark order by the Supreme Court on the Aadhaar card ...


Hindustan Times
We must thank the Supreme Court for doing what the Centre should have done in the first place: clearing the confusion on whether Aadhaar is mandatory for ...


Indian Express
The court was responding to a PIL that challenged Aadhaar's very validity. ... Though Aadhaar enrolment is technically optional, it is clearly conceived as the ...


Press Trust of India
New Delhi, Sept 24 (PTI) The government will push for passage of a long-pending bill to provide statutory status to the Unique Identification Authority of India ...


The Day After
New Delhi, A day after Supreme Court observed that Aadhaar card was not mandatory for availing of government services, the government plans to approach ...


Financial Express
Indeed, this has always been the government's official position, that even if people don't have Aadhaar numbers, they will not be denied government benefits ...


Zee News
The apex court passed the order in response to a PIL pleading it to examine the "voluntary" nature of the Aadhaar cards. The PIL was filed by Justice KS ...




The Supreme Court issued an interim order on September 23, 2013, on a public interest litigation challenging certain aspects of the UID Aadhaar project.


With 7.4 crore enrolments, State has covered 65 per cent of its population.


A day after the Supreme Court ruled that Aadhaar card issued under the Unique Identification (UID) project has no legal base and it cannot be mandatory for a ...


New Delhi: A day after Supreme Court observed that Aadhaar card was not mandatory for availing of government...


The government will push for passage of a long-pending bill to provide statutory status to the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) in the winter session ...


Aadhaar Card, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. 130 likes · 96 talking about this · 3 were here. All people in India should have Aadhaar Card by 2016.


NEW DELHI: With the Supreme Court making it clear that Aadhaar cannot be mandatory for release of benefits under social welfare schemes, the enrolment by ...


Supreme court on Monday ruled that Adhar card is not mandatory but voluntary for LPG connection. The apex court has said that public services like liquefied ...


The Supreme Court, on 23 September, after hearing a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) ruled that Aadhaar Card cannot be made mandatory for availing any of the ...


On Monday, the Supreme Court questioned the 'purpose' of the government's ambitious biometrics-based citizens identification Aadhaar card saying that it can'.


In what could prove to be a major embarrassment to prime minister Manmohan Singh and UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi, the Supreme Court on Monday put a ...


Some states had made Aadhaar mandatory for several welfare entitlements.

What do you think of this post?Awesome (0) Interesting (0) Useful (0) Dislike (0) Disheartening (0) BANGALORE, September 25: The Supreme Court decree that ...


The Unique Identification Scheme,managed by Infosys co-founder Nandan Nilekani, got a body blow on Monday when the SC ruled it was not mandatory to ...


Union government enters damage-control mode as SC dismisses importance of #Aadhaar. http://t.co/JkpGI2ax9E by bsindia 382707163568672768.


This article describes the main reasons why Indians should not get themselves an Aadhaar card, especially since the Supreme Court has now said itâ™s not ...


Financial express latest business and finance news: Bill in winter session to give legal status to Aadhaar: Govt.


Aadhaar Not Mandatory Says Supreme Court. The apex court issued the order on a PIL challenging the legal sanctity of Aadhaar card, which is one of the main ...


New Delhi: In a setback to the Centre, the Supreme Court on Monday said that Aadhaar cards, being issued under a key scheme of the UPA-2, are purely ...


On Monday, the Supreme Court questioned the 'purpose' of the government's ambitious biometrics-based citizens identification Aadhaar card saying that it can't ...