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The Hindu
The Aadhaar-issuing body added, in response to an RTI query, that it took note of the breach and got the data removed from those websites. It did not specify when the breach took place. It said Aadhaar details have never been made public from or by UIDAI. “However, it was found that approximately ...
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The Hindu
The UIDAI has provided some “relaxation” to banks in procurement of enrolment machines and hiring private data entry operators for their Aadhaar centres, and hopes that banks will offer such services at stipulated 10 % of the branches “at the earliest”, its CEO Ajay Bhushan Pandey has said.
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Economic Times
Vivek Wadhwa , tech entrepreneur, writer and a distinguished fellow at Carnegie Mellon University's College of Engineering, has come out with a new book, The Driver in the Driverless Car, co-written with Alex Salkever. It looks at how technology is going to change our world in under a decade, ...
Entrepreneur Vivek Wadhwa praises what India has achieved with Aadhaar, advocates strong ... - Firstpost
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Times of India
PUNE: Post offices are turning out to be the lifeline for Pune and other cities in Maharashtra lagging in Aadhaar enrolments. Though the state ... In June, the department of posts had started Aadhaar data updating facilities at 120 of its offices across the Maharashtra and Goa circle. The post offices will ...
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India Today
Making a strong case for Aadhaar cards, the Narendra Modi government has told the Supreme Court that it could save a whopping Rs 59,677 crore through Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT) scheme in the last three years by weeding out duplication and fake claimants of welfare measures. The Centre also ...
SBI customers link your Aadhaar with bank account by December 2017 end; Here's how you can - Zee Business
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Deccan Herald
"Right now, we issue administrative orders on Aadhaar. But, without a legal framework, these orders can be challenged. We are enacting a legislation and a draft has been prepared. This will enable departments to make Aadhaar compulsory," Additional Chief Secretary (e-governance) Rajeev Chawla ...
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United News of India
New Delhi, Nov 19 (UNI) With reports of Public Distribution System (PDS) beneficiaries being denied subsidised rations for want of Aadhaar number or failure of biometric authentication, the Central government on Saturday clarified that eligible beneficiaries can have their Aadhaar numbers linked to ...
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Mathrubhumi English
Thodupuzha: Assuring Aadhaar number to all, Idukki district has launched an Aadhaar enrolment programme where newborn babies can get Aadhaar on their birthday itself. The project was launched in connection with the 15th anniversary celebrations of Akshaya project. District collector GR Gokul ...
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NDTV
In October, about 47 per cent of the PoS transactions were reported to be without Aadhaar-based authentication which clearly indicates that state governments are enforcing the guidelines regarding not denying benefits under the national food security law on account of the absence of Aadhaar-based ...
Department of Food and Public Distribution clarifies on media reports on death due to starvation. - Business Standard
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The Hindu
The department is spending ₹2.80 crore for the initiative, which is also expected to support the child Aadhaar enrolment programmes. Along with the tabs, the entrepreneurs will get biometric devices as part of the government's efforts to increase the number of Akshaya centres that can quickly facilitate ...
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Financial Express
Bringing respite to lakh of Non-Resident Indians (NRIs), Person of Indian Origin (PIOs) and Overseas Citizen of India (OCIs) the authority has clarified that government agencies can now exempt individuals who do not fall under the ambit of Aadhaar act from furnishing the identity proof to avail the ...
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The Sunday Guardian
A customer's credit reliability is tested based on Aadhaar details and real-time algorithms. The alternative lending facilities include loans for individuals, Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs), e-commerce sellers etc. Amongst those startups who have been simplifying digital lending are Rubique, InCred ...
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National Herald
For example, he says, many ration dealers have collected hundreds of Aadhaar cards of people who are also ration card holders. “On the pretext of linking their ration cards with their Aadhaar, they keep telling them the process has not yet been completed. This is how their quota is stolen and sold in the ...
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The Hindu
Police Commissioner D. Gautam Sawang in a statement here on Saturday, requested the agents to bring the proof of the documents clearing the amount to the depositors, bank passbook, Aadhaar card, receipts and original bonds of the depositors along with them. The agents should carry the original ...
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The Hindu
Since the whole exercise is linked to Aadhaar, the registration is causing delay. The authorities should immediately rectify the technical glitches,” says P. Babu Reddy, chairman of the Federation of Andhra Pradesh Teachers' Organisations (FAPTO). The department has installed biometric machines in ...
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The Tribune
The residents gave their personal details like bank accounts and Aadhaar numbers in the forms. ... Municipal Corporation Additional Commissioner Saurabh Mishra advised the residents not to share bank details or Aadhaar numbers with others and check their identity before sharing crucial information.
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The Telegraph
Thakurpukur: Police are waiting for bank CCTV footage to identify the person who duped a woman outside a bank by saying he would link her Aadhaar to her account on Tuesday. A man had asked Anjali Manna, 74, for the money she had withdrawn from a nationalised bank's Sakherbazar branch, ...
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The Indian Express
“They have said that it is the right of the government to force every citizen to provide the Aadhaar number for any activity in the country. They want to know the bank balance, movements of the people,” Sibal said furthering his comments on the privacy debate in the country. He clarified that Congress is ...
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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.
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