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

Thursday, February 9, 2017

10823 - Articles on Aadhaar Dated 4th February 2017



UIDAI clamps down on 50 fraud sites offering Aadhaar services
Economic Times
NEW DELHI: In a massive crackdown on unauthorised agencies offering Aadhaar-related services illegally and charging excessive money from the ...
UIDAI Shuts 24 Fraud Aadhaar Websites, Android Apps - News18
UIDAI shuts down 24 illegal apps, websites collecting Aadhaar information - BGR India
UIDAI pulls down unauthorized Aadhaar websites and mobile apps: Report - Tech2


Assam's Missing Subsidised Rice - The Importance Of Aadhaar And Direct Benefit Transfer
Forbes
That India is going to have a welfare system of some sort is obvious–everywhere else does and the Randian fantasies of no government redistribution ...





Budget 2017: Aadhaar a unique way of delivering services; no parallel in the world, says Ashok ...
Financial Express
Budget 2017: Because of Aadhaar, around 110 crore people in India now have a unique identification, Finance Secretary and Secretary (Expenditure) ...





No proposal to link Aadhaar with Railway passes: Govt
State Times
New Delhi:- The government currently has no proposal to link Aadhaar numbers with railway passes, Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu informed ...





Zulfkar calls for speedy Aadhaar seeding of consumers
Kashmir Reader
The meeting was informed that 8,857,008 Aadhaar cards have been generated with 37 per cent of the ration cards successfully seeded with Aadhaar.





Aadhaar Cards of people who don't like "Like if You are a True Indian" pics to be cancelled
Firstpost (satire)
Indian Government has announced today that the Aadhaar cards of people who did not like the “Like if You are a True Indian” type of pics shared in ...





UIDAI demonstrate at Zero Tolerance against unauthorized Agencies and Websites
Orissadiary.com
New Delhi: Demonstrating zero tolerance to unauthorized websites and mobile applications providing Aadhaar related services illegally by charging ...





Digitising India
Hindu Business Line
Aadhaar Pay, a merchant version of Aadhaar Enabled Payment System proposed to be launched soon, may benefit those who do not have debit ...





1469 beneficiaries suffer in Tral after SWD stalls pensions
Greater Kashmir
However, Director Social Welfare, Kashmir Hashmat Ali Yattoo said that government has made it mandatory to produce Aadhaar details for every ...





Much ado
The Indian Express
The Survey also raised hopes that something will be done to rationalise subsidies and aggressively push JAM (Jan Dhan, Aadhaar and Mobile), but ...





Haryana Govt's digital drive fails to get farmers to 'connect'
NYOOOZ
Along with the facilities of making domicile certificates, driving license, birth certificates, Aadhaar cards and free medical check-up, the products of ...





RBI proposes to waive off bank transactions charges and decrease interest rate for credit cards
Financial Express
... has approved a scheme for giving 0.5 percent incentive on payments made through the Aadhaar Enabled Payment System (AEPS) to merchants.





India in 10 years: Ten things we need to change
Livemint
The Aadhaar cancer is spreading to all sections of society and the devastation it is causing by denying people lifeline public services (scholarships, ...





New legislation to check double registration
The Hindu
The registrations would also be tagged to Aadhaar card number. The new registration district would also ensure that no duplicate registrations were ...





Pool car driver elopes with teen, arrested
NYOOOZ
The girl, whose birth certificate says she is 16 and her Aadhaar card shows her to be 18, had gone missing along with the driver on Monday from her ...





A press release from the CBSE said the MCI had clarified that attempts made by candidates for ...
NetIndian
Aadhaar number is required to fill up the online application of NEET 2017 for the candidates of all States except Jammu & Kashmir, Assam and ...





Nation Briefs
Calcutta Telegraph
... the Google Playstore in a crackdown on unauthorised agencies offering Aadhaar-related services illegally and charging excessive money from the ...





Devangshu Datta: Privacy in peril
Business Standard
Target boxes underneath their faces list their Aadhaar numbers, names, mobile numbers, emails, residential addresses, dates of birth, etc, with some ...
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