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

Tuesday, December 19, 2017

12523 - Aadhaar Articles Dated 19th December 2017



'Link policies to Aadhaar by March 31'
The Hindu
The Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India (IRDAI) has fixed March 31, 2018 as the deadline for insurance policy holders to link Aadhaar and PAN, or Form 60, to their policies. For new policies, the process has to be completed within six months. “The date of submission of Aadhaar ...
Latest On Aadhaar Linking: New Deadline, What To Do, Other Important Details - NDTV
LIC Insurance Policy: How To Link With Aadhaar Card Number, PAN Online - NDTV
How To Link HDFC Life, LIC Insurance Policies With Aadhaar, PAN - NDTV


Illegal Bangladeshi immigrants held with Aadhaar cards
The Hindu
Officials of Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI), with the help of the Bellandur police, arrested seven persons, including six Bangladeshi nationals, who had obtained Aadhaar cards by forging documents to secure jobs in IT firms in and around Whitefield. The police have also arrested Syed ...
Aadhaar cards racket busted, 6 Bangladeshis arrested in Bengaluru - Deccan Chronicle
6 Bangladeshis get Aadhaar through tout, govt doc - Deccan Herald
B'deshis held for giving fake documents for Aadhaar - The New Indian Express


Aadhaar, PAN to be linked to insurance policies by March 31
Economic Times
In a circular issued on Monday to all the life, non-life (including standalone health insurers) the Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India (Irdai) said the date of submission of the Aadhaar Number and Permanent Account Number or Form 60 by clients to reporting entity is March 31, 2018.





UIDAI Puts Temporary Ban On Airtel For Flouting Aadhaar Rules
Inc42 Media
Bharti Airtel and Airtel Payments Bank, the country's first payments bank, have been temporarily banned from conducting eKYC of customers using Aadhaar. The stringent action has been taken by the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) on the basis of allegations that the telecom major was ...
UIDAI suspends Airtel, Airtel Payments Bank's eKYC license for flouting Aadhaar rules - The News Minute
168 Crore In Airtel Bank Without Users' Nod - NDTV
'Immediately' Return Cooking Gas Subsidies: Hindustan Petroleum To Airtel - NDTV


Has Aadhaar Extended to India's Sex Trade?
findBIOMETRICS
The sex trade has offered up the latest example of the extensive reach of Aadhaar, India's national biometric ID program, with a report that a pimp in the state of Goa demanded photos of the Aadhaar cards of prospective clients. As The Times of India reports, the incident was connected to a bachelor ...





Aadhaar and inefficiency
The Indian Express
It's good that the Supreme Court has delayed the linking of Aadhaar with other documents until March end while it examines the issue further. Let me not be misunderstood. I have always been in favour of an identification system. When I was asked to chair a group on training and reform of the higher civil ...
All Aadhaar Deadlines Extended To March 31st; Govt. Says 70 Cr Bank A/cs Linked! - Trak.in (blog)
Legality of Aadhaar-linking - The Echo of India
Govt sets Dec 23 deadline for CPS staff to link Aadhaar - The Hans India


Aadhaar issue: Bharti Airtel subscribers get LPG subsidy in Payments bank account
Zee Business
“In many cases across the three Oil Marketing Companies (IOCL, BPCL and HPCL) where the Aadhaar linking of LPG consumers has got changed in the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) mapper to Airtel Bank and hence the LPG subsidy is getting sent to the new bank account in the Airtel ...
Airtel Deposits Rs 167 Crore In Their Payments Bank Without Customer Consent - The Logical Indian
LPG subsidy diversion: Airtel promises to return Rs 190 crore to original bank accounts - Business Today
Why UIDAI's rap on Airtel is a warning for firms dealing with customer data - Livemint


Aadhaar Linkage and Other Travails
Moneylife
Many of us have been against the biometrics-based identification numbers since inception and even more vocal about the frightening implications of forcing us to link the Aadhaar number to our telephones, banks, investments, education, healthcare and almost every activity of our lives including death.
How to Apply And Update Aadhaar Card Online- Step by Step Guide - BW Businessworld
Aadhaar wait just got longer in Assam - The Sentinel


Pune: Domestic helps protest against compulsory linking of Aadhaar, PAN
The Indian Express
HUNDREDS OF domestic helps from different parts of the city held a protest outside the office of additional labour commissioner in Pune against the compulsory linking of PAN and Aadhaar numbers for availing welfare schemes. Protesters said the officials were demanding the details even for ...





No proposal to make Aadhaar linkage mandatory for property
Outlook India
New Delhi, Dec 19 There was no proposal to make Aadhaar linkage mandatory for property transactions, Parliament was informed today. In a written reply in the Lok Sabha, Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Housing and Urban Affairs Hardeep Singh Puri, however, said the rural ...





Uttarakhand: 53000 Disabled And Widows Lose Their Pension Owing To Lack Of Aadhaar
The Logical Indian
53,000 people in Uttarakhand lose pension for the lack of Aadhaar card, said a report by The Times of India. According to documents accessed by the publication, out of 59,081 people who draw disability pension in Uttarakhand, 5,424 have not got a single penny of pension since October 2016.





Phonon's Chatbot to help banks, insurers, telecom companies with Aadhaar linking process
ANI News
Gurugram (Haryana) [India], Dec 19 (ANI-BusinessWire India): Phonon Communications, provider of India's largest loan bot, announced the launch of a new chatbot with Aadhaar validation capabilities. "Aadhaar Bot" is an AI-powered (Artificial Intelligence) chatbot which can be integrated with websites, ...
Phonon's Chatbot to Help Banks, Fund Houses, Insurers and Telecom Companies with Aadhaar ... - Business Wire India (press release)


Linking number with Aadhaar: BSNL holds spl mela
Covai Post Network
BSNL is conducting a special mela in all customer services centres of Coimbatore and Tirupur districts for linking of Aadhaar number with Mobile number from Monday to February 2. BSNL customers can also link their aadhar number with mobile in all BSNL retailers / franchisees / DSA (direct selling ...





No proposal to make Aadhaar linkage mandatory for property deals: Govt tells Parliament
The Statesman
In a written reply in the Lok Sabha, Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Housing and Urban Affairs Hardeep Singh Puri, however, said the rural development ministry had advised the states and union territories to explore the possibilities of using consent-based Aadhaar authentication for ...
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