12664 - Aadhaar Articles Dated 10th January 2018

	UIDAI introduces new two-layer security system to improve Aadhaar privacy 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 ... India's biometric programme is putting the identities of a billion people at risk - Quartz 'Aadhaar cyber hit will cause incalculable loss' - Times of India Anyone With Your Aadhaar Number Can See Which Bank You Have an Account In - NDTV
	Journo exposing Aadhaar leak merits award, not probe: Edward Snowden 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 ... Aadhaar open to attack from cyber criminals: RBI-backed paper - The Hindu Aadhaar breaches fuelled by rogue admin accounts - Naked Security Edward Snowden joins outcry against Aadhaar - Livemint
	APGVB plans 76 Aadhaar centres 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 ... Getting Aadhaar a herculean task in city - Times of India
	Your Aadhaar number can give away your bank name: Here's how 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.
	Trinamool Congress Will "Persistently" Fight Against Aadhaar: Derek O'Brien 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, ...
	Aadhaar could be a single target for cyber criminals: RBI researchers 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.
	Govt extends deadline for linking Aadhaar with saving schemes like post office deposits, Kisan ... 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 ...
	Multiple official websites of Gujarat state government exhibiting Aadhaar details of beneficiaries 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 ...
	Memo to Shekhar Gupta: To understand Aadhaar's threat to democracy, listen to Snoopgate tapes 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 ...
	Aadhaar leak: Only 23 per cent think their biometric data is safe with UIDAI, says survey 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.
	Aadhaar forger in net 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 ...
	God, please save India from our upper class Aadhaarophobics 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 ... Future of 1000 students from Nepal hangs in balance sans Aadhaar card Times of India Bareilly: Days before the last date for filling online examination forms, 16-year-old Nazir Ahmed, a native of Nepal's Rupandehi district and student of a madrassa in Maharajganj district of Uttar Pradesh, was shocked to find that the UP Board of Madrassa Education has made Aadhaar card compulsory ... Aadhaar linking is voluntary, it's not mandatory to avail services: Experts Business Standard Despite government extending the deadline for mandatory linking Aadhaar to avail benefits of various welfare schemes to March 31, there are companies that are insisting on giving Aadhaar details to avail numerous services. Last week there were media reports that Cigna TTK Health Insurance had ... NRIs exempted from linking mobile connections to Aadhaar Hindustan Times Last year, when Indian-origin residents had faced a similar quandary in terms of mandatory quoting of Aadhaar number for filing income tax returns in India or obtaining Permanent Account Number (PAN) cards, the finance ministry's Central Board of Direct Taxes had made an exception for them. Aadhaar data breach FIR: Pb Cong govt extends support to Outlook India Chandigarh, Jan 9 Punjab's Amarinder Singh government today extended its support to the protest by 'The Tribune' employees against filing of an FIR against the newspaper's journalist over a report on alleged breach of Aadhaar data. The Tribune employees union today staged a demonstration ... Two men enter IGIA using Aadhaar cards of others, arrested Daily Pioneer Two men have been apprehended by the CISF for entering the sensitive Delhi airport by allegedly impersonating and using Aadhaar cards of others for travel, officials said on Tuesday. The incident took place on Monday after the CISF officials, who were on a high alert in the wake of the Republic Day ...