AADHAAR RELATED ARTICLES: 10757 - Aadhaar Articles Dated 22nd December 2016

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, January 22, 2017

10757 - Aadhaar Articles Dated 22nd December 2016

Indian business prepares to tap into Aadhaar, a state-owned fingerprint-identification system

The Economist

Jio is tapping a database called Aadhaar, after the Hindi word for “foundation”. It is a cloud-based ID system that holds the details of over a billion ...

Aadhaar's long shadow

The Hindu

Despite the Supreme Court's clear order that the Aadhaar card scheme is purely voluntary and should not be made compulsory till the matter is ...

Chhattisgarh's way of dealing with Aadhaar: When fingerprints fail, take photos

Scroll.in

The Aadhaar project, which was started in 2009, aims to give a 12-digit unique identity number to all Indian residents by collecting their fingerprint and ...

Questioning the “Phenomenal Success” of Aadhaar-linked Direct Benefit Transfers for LPG

Economic and Political Weekly

The Aadhaar-linked Direct Benefit Transfer scheme for reducing leakages in Liquified Petroleum Gas (LPG) subsidies has been widely advertised as ...

Aadhaar Card made compulsory for JEE Mains examination

Brainbuxa

According to reports, Aadhaar card details will be compulsory for the Joint Entrance Exam (JEE) Mains from the year 2017 onwards while online ...

Field checks on to weed out bogus ration cards

The Hindu

Out of 7.5 crore PDS beneficiaries, the linking of Aadhaar numbers of the beneficiaries with the data of ration cards has been carried out in respect of ...

Official fare for cashless push draws modest response

Times of India

We then get that merchant registered on UPI or an Aadhaar-based payment system, and teach them how to use it. That way, the transaction can ...

Five held for making fake Aadhaar cards

The Sentinel

GUWAHATI, Dec 20: Police today nabbed five persons involved in making fake Aadhaar cards during a raid at Ulubari area of the city. Sleuths believe ...

Digital Maharashtra: 30000 villages will soon go cashless

The Hindu

The volunteers will train villagers in Aadhaar-enabled payment systems (AEPS), use of debit/credit cards, Unified Payment Interface (UPI), ...

New Payments System to Let Indian Citizens Pay with Their Fingers

findBIOMETRICS

In announcing the program, Prasad asserted that about 400 million of the country's 1.1 billion banks accounts are already linked to Aadhaar, ...

Nandan Nilekani is one of Bill Gates' favourite fanatics of 2016

Financial Express

Nilekani is the former chairman of the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) which brought the famous Aadhaar card to so any Indians. Earlier ...

NEET Application Forms for 2017 to be out soon: check updates at aipmt.nic.in

India.com

The same source also confirmed that the application form for NEET UG 2017 exam would be online and might require an Aadhaar Card number.

In Gurgaon, queues to open a new account

The Indian Express

Hira Singh, a worker at Labour Chowk, where some banks had set up desks, had said Monday, “I saw the camps and rushed home to get my Aadhaar ...

KSU wants task force on residents' safety act

The Shillong Times

SHILLONG: The KSU on Tuesday urged the State government to implement the Meghalaya Residents Safety and Security Act, 2016, and the ...

All India DWCRA Bazar in city from Dec 23

The Hans India

The gap is only due to the lack of having bank accounts and Aadhaar cards and failure in seeding the Aadhaar card to bank accounts. However, it was ...