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.

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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.

God Save India

Saturday, January 20, 2018

12698 - Aadhaar Articles Dated 20th January 2018


How to fix Aadhaar: In their pell-mell drive for growth, the card issuers have compromised quality
Few things have grown in this world as fast as the Aadhaar card. The UIDAI, its issuer, was established in 2009 and the first card was issued in September 2010. Now, just over seven years later, we are at a staggering 1.2 billion Aadhaar cards. In fact growth from zero to a billion took a mere ...
LIC not to seek Aadhaar for online access
In the process, seeking of Aadhaar number, PAN details mandatorily was inadvertently done,” the official said. The official added that the issue had been escalated to their technical team and “we will be removing the requirements of the mandatory providing of Aadhaar number and PAN”. However, the ...
SC no to RS MP's plea seeking merger of voter ID with Aadhaar
The Supreme Court today refused to hear Rajya Sabha MP Sasikala Pushpa's plea seeking merger of voter ID card with Aadhaar and granted her ... A five-judge constitution bench is hearing a clutch of pleas challenging the constitutional validity of government's flagship Aadhaar programme and its ...

Aadhaar seeding to eliminate multiple PF accounts: Official
"Aadhaar seeding and bank account linking will help do away with multiple provident fund accounts, once merger of accounts happens with the help of Aadhaar ... "Employees will not require transferring their PF account to the new employer as with Aadhaar-seeded UAN numbers, transfer will happen ...
How Aadhaar is Changing the Rules of Surveillance in India
This can be easily deduced from obtaining your call history, internet traffic and bank details. By linking your mobile number and bank account to Aadhaar, it is possible to know roughly where you are, which ATMs you usually use, where you usually spend, how much you usually withdraw, who you talk to, ...
Aadhaar to do away with witnesses for property registration from next month
Come February, homebuyers will be able to register their properties simply through Aadhaar verification, without bothering about witnesses. The department of registration and stamps issued a notification last week allowing verified Aadhaar credentials for property deals from next month. The state would ...

Constant attempts made to infiltrate Aadhaar database: UIDAI CEO
Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) Chief Executive Officer Ajay Bhushan Pandey has said constant attempts were being made to infiltrate the Aadhaar database of 1.19 billion people. Pandey said these attempts were originating from several countries across the globe. “We have layers and ...

UIDAI Denies Aadhaar Data Breach Puts Massive Biometric Database at Risk
In the face of what has been described as one of the largest data breaches in India – if not the world's history – the Indian Aadhaar database is now coming under the scrutiny of the Indian Courts who will decide on the scope of the implementation of the gigantic one billion person database. The Unique ...
'Cyber Surakshit Bharat' aims to secure Aadhaar data: Alphons
"With a billion-plus mobilephones linked with a billion-plus Aadhaar connections and a billion-plus bank accounts, we are definitely going to face billions and billions of threats, which are growing and becoming more and more sophisticated," said Ajay Prakash Sawhney, Secretary, MeitY. "I believe that ...

Aadhaar link rule: Needy children denied food in T'gana tribal areas
They have not been getting their due share of food material as their Aadhaar number has not been seeded while enrolling them in Anganwadis. The survey was conducted in 35 Anganwadi centres located in Dasnapur and Keslapur Grama Panchayatas in Indravelli mandal and Pochampalli and Vaipet ...
EPFO to eliminate multiple PF accounts after Aadhaar seeding process
It may be noted that Aadhaar seeding is a process in which the unique IDs of residents are included in the service delivery database of service providers. "Aadhaar seeding and bank account linking will help do away with multiple provident fund accounts, once the merger of accounts happens with the ...
Supreme Court to hear plea seeking Aadhaar-Voter ID link
It was pointed out that various courts had also expressed concern over defective electoral rolls. She said it was necessary to bring transparency in the electoral process. Linking the Aadhaar card with voter ID card would result in greater authentication in preparation of final electoral rolls by the Election ...

Aadhaar enrolment low in hill districts
Notwithstanding the Government's special drive, very few people came out for Aadhaar enrolment in the hill districts thereby raising a serious question on the census data of 2011.Earlier, the State Government set December 31 last year as the last date for Aadhaar enrolment and the Aadhaar enrolment ...

TWSB: What's on offer from Amazon, Flipkart in mega sale season, why some startups batting for ...
TWSB: What's on offer from Amazon, Flipkart in mega sale season, why some startups batting for Aadhaar ... find out what's the big offer in Amazon and Flipkart, why Patanjali bets big on e-commerce and hopes to sell products worth Rs1000 crore in 2018 and why startups batting for Aadhaar in SC.
Aadhaar must for applying for adults' passports, Centre says
The Centre has made it clear that it would be absolutely essential to furnish Aadhaar Cards for citizens above 18 years of age while applying for fresh passports. Some changes have also been made in the process of applying for an Indian passport. The BJP-led Centre appears to be keen on making ...
Tech Tent: China's AI ambitions
But now reports of a data leak, with individuals' personal details put up for sale, have undermined public confidence in the scheme. Just as in China, there's that trade-off between convenience and privacy. But, in the case of the Aadhaar card, Indian campaigners say citizens are getting a poor bargain.
The Narendra Modi interview that will never happen. 10 questions I desperately want to ask the PM
Epaper. Trending Now. #Aadhaar: #BenjaminNetanyahu: #Padmavati: #IndiavsSouthAfrica2018: #SupremeCourt. Home / India / The Narendra Modi interview that will never happen. 10 questions I desperately want to ask the PM ...
Invading privacy
Basically, mapping personal details through Aadhaar is emerging as a major threat to the right of privacy of the citizens in the country. The data collected while registering people under Aadhaar scheme and its subsequent leakage to unnecessary quarters as reported in media is emerging as a cause of ...
Digital infra to increase threefold in 5 years: Telecom Secretary
Without mentioning any vexed issue like the Aadhaar, she said government is working on both data protection as well as data security. She said the telecom department is currently finalising the new telecom policy and asserted that it will come out in 2018 itself. Citing the work done by the information ...
UPSEE schedule announced, registration forms out on Jan 23
It has also made submission of the Aadhaar card number mandatory for all applicants, except for those from Meghalaya, Jammu and Kashmir and Assam. This year, the entrance exam for admission to undergraduate courses would be held on April 29. For postgraduate courses, the test would be held on ...
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