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 ...