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, September 4, 2017

11970 - Invite- Museum of the Aadhaar abused - Fossilised Citizenship - A protest by people denied of their entitlements because of the Aaadhar system

From: Right to Food Campaign Network <rfckarnataka@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Sep 4, 2017 at 12:27 PM
Subject: Invite- Museum of the Aadhaar abused - Fossilised Citizenship - A protest by people denied of their entitlements because of the Aaadhar system



Dear Friends,

The Right to Food Karnataka would like to invite you all for - Museum of the Aadhaar Abused  

Museum of the Aadhaar abused

Fossilised Citizenship - A protest by people denied of their entitlements because of the Aaadhar system

6th September 2017, 10.30 AM to 1.00 PM, in front of the Town Hall, Bangalore

The Right to Food Campaign - Karnataka

The historical judgment on Privacy as a fundamental right by the Supreme Court will hopefully stop the government from employing intrusive means of profiling people in the name of Aadhaar. An equally important issue is how Aadhaar has become a tool in the hands of the state to exclude people from accessing even basic entitlements and services.

Despite repeated court orders, Aadhaar has been linked to every aspect of people’s lives from school admissions, scholarships, insurance policies to even monthly rations, TB and HIV drugs, disaster relief and death certificates. While this forced submission of people into parting their private data can be challenged using the recent SC judgment, the brazen use of Aadhar to systemically deny the masses of their basic entitlements is a matter that is yet to be accepted by the same courts, reminding us of the class bias of the legal system in India.

Millions of deprived people, most of them who live a hand to mouth existence in slums and villages are going without food as the Aadhaar machines at ration shops often fail to recognise the worn down finger prints of labourers or because of other technical problems. The same issues prevent them from accessing other life critical and developmental services like old age, widow and disability pensions, school admissions for children, scholarship and medical treatment.

The state, instead of plugging leaks, most of which happen at the higher echelons of administration, is criminalising law abiding citizens of the country by treating them as suspects instead of citizens. This has completely skewed the social contract between the state and the citizens and Aadhaar has become a technological tool of exclusion by a brutally bureaucratic state. Cases of people deprived because of Aadhaar run into millions but the government remains in a deliberate state of denial.

The Musuem of the Aadhaar abused is a unique protest by people who are being denied of their rightful entitlements because of Aadhaar.  As exhibits for their own cause, the deprived people will highlight why Aadhaar is proof of the government gone wrong, of how Aadhaar has fossilised the very idea of citizenship and has become the most intrusive and discriminatory technology in the world today. The Museum of the Aadhaar abused will be organised by the Right to Food Campaign – Karnataka with the demand for Aadhaar to be delinked from all services.  All are welcome.


Please confirm your participation

Neelaiah 

Convener,
The Right to Food Campaign Karnataka

Phone: 9880606883 
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