AADHAAR RELATED ARTICLES: 11444 - Aadhaar Articles Dated 21st May 2017

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

Monday, May 22, 2017

11444 - Aadhaar Articles Dated 21st May 2017

In welfarist TN, Aadhaar is a gamechanger but with glitches

The Hindu

This was only among the most recent of a range of initiatives taken up in Tamil Nadu to make Aadhaar the one-stop identification tag for all its ...

Aadhaar: Strictly follow all security guidelines, says Chief Secretary

Morung Express

Highlighting the secrecy of Aadhaar data, the Chief Secretary said that government departments should be careful about protecting the secrecy of ...

Aadhaar Deadline Not To Be Extended beyond June 30, 2017

NewsPatrolling (press release) (blog)

Government of India declared June 30 deadline for making Aadhaar mandatory for availing benefits of various social welfare schemes, the centre ...

#JudgmentReserved: Supreme Court delivers 25 judgments in two days

Bar & Bench

Reading this judgment brought to mind the heated debates during the recent hearing of the Aadhaar-PAN case before Justices Sikri and Ashok ...

Jayant Sinha Has A New Security Plan For Your Flights, And It Includes Aadhaar

BloombergQuint

Through verification by Aadhaar, travellers will be able to get a digital boarding pass much before their flight, Minister of State for Civil Aviation Jayant ...

India's broad digital brush not enough to replace babudom

The New Indian Express

It was a rather disturbing discovery when a friend of mine happened to let it slip over one of our afternoon soirees that her husband had two Aadhaar ...

[Weekend wrap] Security is a myth, they can come for you anywhere

YourStory.com

Which brings me to the security debate that is raging nationwide around Aadhaar and its implementation. The Aadhaar project by the UIDAI provides ...

JEE Advanced Exam 2017 today: Don't forget to carry admit cards, Aadhaar card to JEE Advanced ...

India.com

Don't forget to carry admit cards, Aadhaar card to JEE Advanced exam centre today May 21. It has been notified that the students should not wear any ...

Modi Government to Give Attorney General, Solicitor General Another Term

News18

Moreover, on Friday, on being asked by a Supreme Court bench about his availability to argue a PIL relating to Aadhaar, Rohatgi preferred June 27 ...

Minister admits to major blood testing racket in GMC

Oherald

He said that the machines would be installed on the 108 ambulances having connected with Aadhaar cards so that the details of the patient can be ...

Three years of Modi's systemic reforms presage the next seven

The Sunday Guardian

Linking disbursements of government payments with the bio-metric Aadhaar card, bolstered by an Act of Parliament, has led to an avoidance of over ...

LMD books two Common Service Centers

State Times

Common Service Centres are authorized by government to provide services for Aadhaar generation, biometric updates, Aadhaar Search, ...

GST to be best achievement of Modi government: Assocham

NewsX

Assocham said the "clean-up" of the subsidy disbursal process was yet another big plus of the government, which is pursuing to link Aadhaar ID with ...

UIDAI asks research firm CIS to provide details on Aadhar leak

Times Now

In what 'market watchers' described as an apparent flip-flop, CIS has now clarified that there was no 'breach' of Aadhaar numbers, but rather 'public ...