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

Friday, December 29, 2017

12576 - Aadhaar Articles Dated 28th December 2017



Want to open a Facebook account? Keep your Aadhaar card by your side
Economic Times
Now even Facebook wants you to use your Aadhaar while creating a new account. Facebook is testing a new feature which encourages those opening new accounts to submit their names as in their Aadhaar cards. "Using the name on your Aadhaar card makes it easier for friends to recognise you," ...

Facebook ducks query on Aadhaar linkage in future - Economic Times

Facebook Asks New Users To Provide 'Real' Aadhaar Name While Opening Account - Outlook India
Facebook asks new users in India to enter names as per Aadhaar - The News Minute


BJP MPs tell Chidambaram he can't discuss Aadhaar
The Hindu
Early this year, Congress Rajya Sabha member Jairam Ramesh filed a public interest litigation in the Supreme Court questioning how a legislation on Aadhaar could be passed in Parliament as money bill. Mr. Chidambaram represented him in the case in February this year. Citing it, the five BJP ...
P Chidambaram should recuse himself when house panel debates Aadhaar: BJP members - Economic Times
Parl Standing Committee members differ on discussing Aadhaar - Times of India
Aadhaar panel clash - The Telegraph


71.24 crore mobile connections linked with Aadhaar: IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad
Economic Times
"Linking of Aadhaar with personal bank accounts is being done based on the amendments that have been effected in the Prevention of Money Laundering Rules 2005. Linking of Aadhaar with mobile number has been effected in pursuance of...Supreme Court order dated February 6, 2017," Minister for ...





Identity or not? The importance of being Aadhaar
Moneycontrol.com
If the BJP spread its wings across India, gaining a foothold in 19 states by December, the government agencies too made many attempts to entrench Aadhaar into the common man's life through the year. The unique identification number gained importance quite prolifically through the year and will likely ...





Aadhaar made mandatory for Atal Pension Yojana
Economic Times
The new form mandatorily asks for the Aadhaar card number and carries the declaration from the subscribers as such - "I hereby authorize PFRDA to use my Aadhaar details for APY and authenticate my identity through the Aadhaar Authentication system in accordance with the provisions of the Aadhaar ...





Close to 71.24 crore mobile connections linked with Aadhaar: RS Prasad
The Indian Express
Close to 71.24 crore mobile numbers – both new connections and existing – and 82 crore bank accounts have been linked with 12-digit biometric identifier Aadhaar, the Rajya Sabha has been informed. “Linking of Aadhaar with personal bank accounts is being done based on the amendments that have ...
71.24 crore mobile connections now linked with Aadhaar, OTP-based mobile SIM verification to ... - Digit
Law ministry nixes plan to make Aadhaar mandatory for driving licences - Hindustan Times
71.24 crore mobile numbers have been linked with Aadhaar: RS Prasad - BGR India


Unique Identification? 5000 Villagers In MP Have Same Birthday On Aadhaar Card.
Indiatimes.com
The software for Aadhaar is designed in a way that it automatically lists January 1 as the date of birth for people who do not know their actual birthday. It takes between 5-10 days to get the correction done. The lackadaisical approach from the government in a matter to worry. In Jharkand, people have ...
5000 Villagers From 5 Villages Of Madhya Pradesh Have Same Birth Date On Aadhaar; Not Able ... - The Logical Indian


WhatsApp Gets Legal Notice, Facebook's Aadhaar Requirement, Idea Rs. 309 Plan, and More ...
NDTV
Moreover, Facebook has not asked for any Aadhaar-related information yet, such as the UIDAI number. Only a small number of new users signing up for Facebook will see this prompt, and that too only on the mobile site, the company said in a statement to Gadgets 360. Idea updates Rs. 309 plan to offer ...





Foreign Firm Contracted For Aadhaar Under FBI Radar For Installing Secret Code In US Biometric ...
Outlook India
Software for analysing fingerprints used by the FBI and more than 18,000 other US law enforcement agencies contains Russian code. This piece of news should worry Americans and worry India, which is enrolling its citizens for Aadhaar. In a secret deal, the subsidiary of French company Safran Group ...





Now, Aadhaar details mandatory for subscribing Atal Pension Yojana
Zee News
In its latest circular, PFRDA said, “APY subscriber registration form has been suitably modified to obtain the consent of the subscriber for Aadhaar seeding and subsequent authentication”. The Aadhaar mandatory linking of Aadhaar Atal Pension Yojana will be applicable with effect from January 1, 2018.





From January 1, fertiliser subsidy tied to Aadhaar
The New Indian Express
An order has been passed that from January 1, the subsidy will be given only to people carrying Aadhaar cards. Action was taken across TN and Puducherry to support this and point of sale machines were distributed at all offices. Once the Aadhaar details are entered, the farmers would begin getting the ...





Starvation death highlights flaws in Aadhaar-bank linkage
Moneylife
Rethink Aadhaar, a non-partisan campaign concerned about the Aadhaar project, has raised serious queries, supported by documentary evidence, regarding the Aadhaar-bank linkage in the context of the death of a 64-year old widow, Premani Kunwar, due to hunger and exhaustion on 1 December ...
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