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

Saturday, February 17, 2018

12822 - Aadhaar Articles Dated 17th February 2018



NDTV
Nashik, Maharashtra: When Gurudayal Dilbagrai Trikha walked in to sign up for an Aadhaar card, the 36-year-old's extra finger on his left hand stuck out like a sore thumb. Mr Trikha, resident of Gandhi Nagar locality of Maharashtra's Nashik, was struggling for the past eight months to get an Aadhaar ...






Biometric Update
Challenges to the constitutional validity of the Aadhaar program in India's Supreme Court continue to be heard, with Court Justices attempting to clarify the legal position of the petitions against it, The Hindu reports. The hearings are considering 27 writ petitions together, the first of which was initiated ...






Moneycontrol.com
Over 94 percent people in Mizoram have Aadhaar cards, a sizable increase since late last year, a state government official today said. "As on September 23 last year, the percentage of the state's population with Aadhaar card was 79.88 which jumped to 94.15 per cent on February 10, 2018," the official ...



Deccan Chronicle
Nashik: When Gurudayal Dilbagrai Trikha walked in to sign up for an Aadhaar card, the 36-year-old's extra finger on his left hand stuck out like a sore thumb. Trikha, resident of Gandhi Nagar locality of Maharashtra's Nashik, was struggling for the past eight months to get an Aadhaar card, but he was ...



LatestLY
Mumbai, February 16: The government has made it mandatory to link Aadhaar- the 12-digit unique identification number with a host of essential services. Even as the Supreme Court is hearing cases against the mandatory linking of Aadhaar card number with other services, the last day of linking ...






Business Standard
The Aadhaar database has been not only compromised; it has been commoditised to the point where the entire billion-plus set is available for paltry sums. People mould fake rubber fingerprints when they want to impersonate somebody. The Employees Provident Fund database of some 80 million-odd ...






Financial Express
In another incident of growing medical negligence in the country, a woman gave birth to a baby girl outside a Civil Hospital in Gurgaon after allegedly being denied treatment. And the reason is that she didn't have an Aadhaar Card. Now, a show cause notice has been issued to the Emergency Medical ...






Times of India
Bareilly: The UP excise department has made Aadhaar number mandatory for applying for a liquor shop licence. Officials said that after a gap of over 10 years, the government has decided to issue licence to individual applicants unlike the previous government when one particular company was issued ...






United News of India
BSE extends window to submit Aadhaar for New MF Investors. Mumbai, Feb 17(UNI)Leading stock Excnage Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) has extended the deadline for new mutual fund investors to submit PAN and Aadhaar till April 1, 2018, failing which their folios would be closed. This is to ensure ...






India Today
"Our accounts have been linked with Aadhaar so that government can monitor them. But what about these fraud people? What about their Aadhaar cards? How could these banks give such a huge loan?" he asked. After Lalit Modi and Vijay Mallya, this is another massive fraud case which came to light.





TechRadar
Then, make payment and once you receive the device, take the device and your Aadhaar card to your nearest Reliance Digital to activate your Jio connection. The JioPhone is a 4G feature phone that was launched by Reliance Jio in July and went on sale online in August. The company started selling ...



Business Standard
Since all mobile numbers will be linked to an Aadhaar number by March 31, a verified phone number should be enough,” said Sunil Kulkarni, co-chairman, PPI Committee, PCI and joint managing director, Oxigen. Payment players cite the cost of full KYC as a hurdle for their growth. “OTP-based Aadhaar ...



Bangalore Mirror
He proposed to launch five more Apps. These are: Samyojane (to obtain citizen service details), Dishank (to obtain survey number and map on spot), Samikshe (for issuance of digital sketches), Aadhaar Sangrahane (to collect public Aadhaar numbers) and Moulya (to know guidance value of any ...



eGov Magazine | Elets (satire) (press release) (blog)
As part of its growth story and taking the country on development route, India has created the largest digital identity platform in Aadhaar, the world's largest rural broadband network, the world's largest direct benefit transfer system and the world's largest citizen engagement platform in MyGov. Today, we ...






Economic Times
One" director Anubhav Sinha asked one "quick, cute, innocent question" -- "Was Nirav Modi's bank account linked to his Aadhaar." One quick, cute, innocent question. Was NiravModi's bank account linked to his Aadhar? — Anubhav Sinha (@anubhavsinha) February 15, 2018. 0Comments. Want stories ...
Bollywood raises eyebrow at Nirav Modi scam - Prothom Alo English (satire) (press release) (blog)



Business Standard
In fact, the database since July last year is even better as we are doing Aadhaar-based verification,” the official said. However, for Aadhaar-based verification, basic details such as name, father's name and date of birth should match with the Aadhaar detail concerned. The EPFO is facing several hurdles ...






Inc42 Media
As per Deepak, WhatsApp has also refuted the UPI mandate by not allowing customers to pay using bank account plus IFSC or Aadhaar number and not issuing UPI QRs. Other mandated features like 'scan and pay using QR' or 'request payments' features are missing in WhatsApp, which means that a ...




The Telegraph
Bhojpur superintendent of police Avakash Kumar said three country-made pistols, a loaded magazine, 10 live cartridges and an Aadhaar card were seized from room number 110 of the rest house in which the criminals were staying. Raids were underway to arrest the three accused, who managed to ...






Inc42 Media
While Paytm is counting on its force of 7000 agents, Mobikwik is looking to integrate Aadhaar-based KYC using a one-time password. Then, there are other companies like ItzCash and Oxigen Services who are utilising their retail infrastructure to conform to KYC norms instituted by the RBI. While the ...






ThePrint
But just days before he made the 'fish market' remark, senior lawyer Shyam Divan had said before a constitution bench hearing the cases related to the legality of Aadhaar that the judges who will rule in favour of the government will henceforth be known as “Aadhaar judges”. Chandrachud, on that ...






Rising Kashmir Daily English Newspaper (press release)
Chief Secretary received brief from the DCs regarding the status of digitization of land records, credit disbursement under Government schemes, Aadhaar and it's seeding with Bank accounts, implementation of Electronic Benefit Transfer Scheme, Digidhan Mission and the status of allotment of land to ...






Deccan Chronicle
... the metro stations or the legal parking area once it is created. GPS and connectivity sensors are installed in the bikes. Aadhaar and license copy is a must for the rider. The service is operated with the OTP (one-time password) generation code technique. Tags: namma metro, bmrcl officials, metro bikes.