Economic Times
Over the last few years, Aadhaar usage has gone up significantly. 2017 was a challenging year with many incidents and claims relating to biometrics, privacy and exclusion. The government has had to learn to walk the line between transparency and privacy, and now deal with the attentions of ...
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The Hindu
Justice D.Y. Chandrachud on Thursday sharply responded to a submission by petitioners challenging the Aadhaar scheme that unless the judges agreed to their point of view they risk being branded “Aadhaar judges” 25 years down the line. “If that is the impression, so be it; I would better like to be ...
Aadhaar hearing: Petitioners argue on centralisation of data and challenge Aadhaar's claims on ... - Firstpost
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Economic Times
A government official said the new scheme could be a buildup of the ministry's existing Udyog Aadhaar project for micro, small and medium enterprises. The MSME ministry launched the Udyog Aadhaar scheme in September 2015 and, according to a report, more than 4.1 million enterprises across the ...
Is Aadhaar A Far Cry - The Arunachal Times
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Live Law
On Day 6 of the Aadhaar hearing before the Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court, the Petitioners highlighted the “inaccurate claims” made by the Centre and the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) in their affidavits. Firstly, the Petitioners negated the claim that “millions of Indians had no ...
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The Tribune
He said this was not a case of data breach, but the software could be used to generate an Aadhaar card from an unauthorised terminal. Gupta claimed that the seller had asked him to first deposit money into his Paytm account, linked to a nationalised bank having a branch at Dhori Colliery (Jharkhand).
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Gadgets Now
Replying to a question in the Rajya Sabha, Minister of Electronics and Information Technology Ravi Shankar Prasad asserted that the Aadhaar data ... To a question by Neeraj Shekhar of Samajwadi Party on the issue, he claimed that a media report saying that Aadhaar data was available to anyone for ...
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Live Law
The Chhattisgarh High Court has modified its order that made Aadhaar card of the accused as well as surety mandatory before obtaining bail. Now the surety can submit any document of identification like voter ID, PAN, passport also. Justice Prashant Kumar Mishra, in the order on Thursday, said he was ...
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WebWire (press release)
In November 2017, we announced our search for a Hindi Word of The Year, calling on speakers of the language to help choose a word that captures the prevailing ideas, attitudes, and concerns of 2017. After studying the lexical trends of the past year, reviewing the hundreds of public suggestions ...
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Times of India
For the past few months now, there has been a buzz about linking your Aadhaar number with mobile SIM. To facilitate the smooth process of this, many telecom operators are even offering a toll-free service - 14546. The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) had directed all service providers to finish ...
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Times of India
Vinayaraj told reporters that even foreign nationals, who are residing in India for more than 182 days in the 12 preceding months, are eligible to apply for Aadhaar Card as per Aadhaar Act 2016. However, BJP leaders have been using Malaysian student's Aadhaar Card a political issue to target ...
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India Today
Delhi Police has arrested a couple for allegedly duping the banks and people by obtaining loans on forged property papers and later selling the same property. The couple forged documents such as PAN cards, Aadhaar cards, voter ids, driving licenses etc. Both the accused have been declared ...
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Oherald
PANJIM: Labour and Employment Department will create a data base of unemployed youth in the State, linked with the Aadhaar card. PANJIM: ... “All data will be Aadhaar linked, which will give us actual and factual position of the unemployed youth scenario in the State,” the Minister said on Thursday.
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Deccan Chronicle
... Protection Scheme announced by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Thursday, said Finance Secretary Hasmukh Adhia. The Socio-Economic Caste Census (SECC) beneficiary list will be available with empanelled hospital to admit the beneficiary using just his Aadhaar card and number, he added.
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COUNTERVIEW
Another woman has died of undernutrition and exhaustion in Jharkhand after she was denied of Public Distribution System (PDS) ration for four months, allegedly due to the failure of Aadhaar-based biometric authentication. Bringing this to light, the advocacy group Right to Food Campaign, Jharkhand, ...
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Moneycontrol.com
The largest private sector lender ICICI Bank today said it is acquiring a minority stake in Tapits Technologies, an early stage startup that helps merchants accept digital payments through Aadhaar biometrics. "Tapits enables merchants to accept digital payments from customers through biometric ...
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Economic Times
After Aadhaar for individuals, the government has now proposed unique identities for enterprises. The purpose is to crack down on shell companies and ensure easier traceability of public money while increasing the ease of doing business. There's already an Udyog Aadhaar number for micro, small ...
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The Indian Express
Jaitley said the government may introduce an Aadhaar-like scheme for businesses. How does this work? Just like an Aadhaar card, companies too may soon need a unique identity. “Aadhaar has provided an identity to every Indian. Aadhaar has eased the delivery of so many public services to our ...
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ETtech.com
Social Media · E-commerce · People · E-commerce · Digital Payments · Interviews · Funding · Smartphones · Govt policy · Long Reads · Social Media · Apps; More. Technology News · Latest Technology News · Internet · Internet » · Budget 2018 · Startup tax sops · startup budget · Arun Jaitley · AADHAAR ...
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Times of India
Gandhi also raised the issue of "Aadhaar misuse" by the Narendra Modi government to "breach" privacy of citizens. She said Aadhaar was meant for welfare schemes but is being misused by the government. "She also raised the issue of economic health of the country, which she said, remained ...
The big news: Narendra Modi calls Budget 'development-friendly', and nine other top stories - Scroll.in
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Times of India
An employee in the travel agent's office, Natesh Kannadasan manipulated the original Aadhaar of someone to create a fake one in the name of Senthil but with the photograph of Ramesh, at the behest of travel agency owner Suresh. Vijayakumar helped them with addresses for creating fake IDs. Initially ...
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The Quint
The meeting discussed topics and issues raised by Gandhi in her opening remarks.Azad said that Gandhi cautioned the opposition leaders against the ideology of hate and communal and caste violence.Gandhi also raised the issue of "Aadhaar misuse" by the Narendra Modi government to "breach" ...
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The Quint
Justice DY Chandrachud, one of the five Supreme Court judges hearing the Aadhaar case, was anguished with the petitioners for branding him as “Aadhaar judge.” “We are neither Aadhaar judges nor NGO lawyers,” the judge fumed when senior advocate Shyam Divan trashed the World Bank report ...
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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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