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Economic Times
"Aadhaar faces a number of challenges over the short and long-term. The primary challenge is to protect the data from prying and excessive profit seeking excess of the business world. It is well-known that businesses are increasingly operating in a highly competitive world in which ethical boundaries ...
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Economic Times
"The journalists exposing the #Aadhaar breach deserve an award, not an investigation. If the government were truly concerned for justice, they would be reforming the policies that destroyed the privacy of a billion Indians. Want to arrest those responsible? They are called @UIDAI," Snowden posted on ...
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The Hindu
Andhra Pradesh Grameena Vikas Bank (APGVB) plans to set up 50 Aadhaar enrolment centres in Telangana and 26 in Andhra Pradesh to enable those not having Aadhaar card to enrol for it. The public can also use the centres for modifications in the existing Aadhaar card. A total of 148 officials (99 ...
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Times Now
Aadhaar number, the 12-digit unique number issued by UIDAI or Unique Identification Authority of India could give away your bank name to anyone. ... that was rolled out to check whether bank account was linked to a particular Aadhaar number is giving away name of the bank without a prior check.
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NDTV
"From notices in Parliament to questions in Question Hour and Mamata Banerjee's public declarations, the Trinamool Congress has exposed problems relate to Aadhaar. We won't stop. The All India Trinamool Congress have fought a war on Aadhaar beyond just tweeting about it -- early, consistent, ...
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Business Standard
The benefits of Aadhaar, India's biometrics-based unique national identity system–the world's largest–are unclear and the impact of direct benefit transfers it will be used to deliver to the poor is not studied enough, a new study published by an arm of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has concluded.
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Firstpost
New Delhi: Government has extended the deadline for linking of biometric identification Aadhaar to small savings schemes like post office deposits, Kisan Vikas Patra by three months to 31 March, 2018. "It has now been decided to extend the last date for submission of 'Aadhaar' number from 31 ...
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Times Now
Amidst a nationwide debate over the security concerns surrounding the UIDAI-powered unique Aadhaar identity system, a recent media report has claimed that three official websites affiliated to the Gujarat government have been blatantly flouting the Aadhaar Act by disclosing the Aadhaar numbers of ...
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Scroll.in
Last week, we learned from The Tribune that personal information collected as part of Aadhaar, India's unique identity project, is being sold by vendors through WhatsApp for as little as Rs 500. Although Aadhaar's holy of holies, its biometric database, has not yet been breached to the best of our ...
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India Today
Security of Aadhaar data has been a subject of debate ever since the idea was floated under the UPA government. With the latest expose by a national daily showing that with rampant corruption unauthorised access of Aadhaar data is possible for as less as Rs 500, the fear is turning real one more time.
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The Telegraph
Ranchi: A 24-year-old man who was selling fake Aadhaar cards for Rs 100 from an improvised workstation on wheels on the civil court premises here was arrested on Tuesday, exposing the vulnerability of the unique ID that is currently embroiled in a national debate over data leak. An FIR had not been ...
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ThePrint
If your sarkar wants to keep track of you, it doesn't need Aadhaar. But the poor need it for their rights and that's why they aren't protesting. There are two aspects to the Aadhaar/The Tribune controversy. One is the thoughtlessly stupid FIR which names reporter Rachna Khaira and the newspaper, among ...
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Why this Blog ? News articles in the Wide World of Web, quite often disappear with time, when they are relocated as archives with a different url. Archives in this blog serve as a library for those who are interested in doing Research on Aadhaar Related Topics. Articles are published with details of original publication date and the url.
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.
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