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

Monday, February 26, 2018

12882 - Aadhaar Articles dated 26th February 2018



The News Minute
Hundreds of kilometres away, in Banashankari in Bengaluru, 78-year-old Kannairam has a valid ration card linked to a valid Aadhaar card but he still has trouble receiving ration regularly. “I leave it up to the gods,” he says describing his predicament sitting inside his tiny house in Vijaya College slum.






Times of India
Pathan urged the court to grant an interim relief by deferring the March 31 deadline, and directing the state government to ensure the affected citizens did not lose out on receiving food grain subsidies and other benefits under the PDS, if they failed to link the ration cards with the Aadhaar by March 31 ...



Zee Business
Unique Identification Authority of India ( UIDAI) today introduced a 'Baal Aadhaar' card for children below the age of five years. No biometric details will ... is required,” UIDAI said. You can use your child's school ID (Photo ID issued by Recognized Educational Institution) for his/ her Aadhaar enrolment.



Citizen Matters
20 is the key number… this is the maximum number of tokens issued by this post office for Aadhaar, on weekdays. It is 15 on Saturdays. The informal queue system is a citizen-devised initiative, from which the post office officials distance themselves. The first one who reaches, starts the list for the day.






Hindustan Times
The complaint in the matter was filed by Hawaldar Saras Vitthal Salvi after the arrested man printed an Aadhaar smart card with a manipulated birth date of a witness, Ayush Dnyan Tiwari. A case under Sections 420 (cheating), 466 (forgery of record), 468 (forgery for purpose of cheating) of Indian Penal ...






The Asian Age
Mumbai: The University of Mumbai (MU), which has started giving soft copies of mark sheets to students, will disallow students who don't have Aadhaar cards from receiving digital mark sheets. According to MU officials, digital mark sheets will reach students in 15 days' time. However, students who do ...






Times of India
The police had received information that the suspect makes Aadhaar cards using fake and misleading information. A team headed by senior inspector Dayanand Dhome and assistant inspector Sandesh Kenjale raided the shop on Friday and arrested Bhavarlal Sevaram Chowdhari (45), a resident of ...






Mumbai Mirror
The Bombay High Court has refused to defer the March 31 deadline set by the Union government for linking Aadhaar to ration card. A bench of Justices Shantanu Kemkar and Rajesh Ketkar, however, directed the state government to look into the grievances of glitches faced by residents of the state in ...






LatestLY
New Delhi, February 25: The 12-digit unique identification number (UID)- Aadhaar has now become a must have document in the country. In a recent development, the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI), the body that issues Aadhaar informed that a child below 5 years of age will now get a ...






NewsBytes
Aadhaar was launched with an aim to check fraud. A Telangana village has come up with a unique way to achieve this goal. Pothangal Kalan in Gandhari Mandal, Kamareddy, needs visitors to deposit their Aadhaar or any other ID while entering the village. The rule applies to everyone, from beggars to ...






Accommodation TAccimes
The Chief Minister, K Chandrasekhar Rao on Saturday said that land ownership passbook to be linked with Aadhaar numbers if a landowner fails to link that, lands would be considered benami. The distribution of land ownership passbooks to owners is from 11th March 2018. An official release said ...






Mid-Day
The Bombay High Court has refused to defer the March 31 deadline imposed by the Union government for linking Aadhaar to ration card. A bench of justices Shantanu Kemkar and Rajesh Ketkar, however, directed the Maharashtra government to look into the grievances of technological glitches faced ...






Hindu Business Line
India today has over one billion people with either an Aadhaar number or a cellphone, or both. These two powerful connectors reach where most government services and businesses cannot. The two can be used to expand the reach of banking for the benefit of the common man. Additionally, there's the ...






Financial Express
After installing the app, consumers can enter their mobile and Aadhaar number and get a soft-copy of their ration card, provided the Aadhaar and the ration card are linked, the spokesman said. The digital ration card would contain information regarding details of ration to be provided to the consumer ...






The Hindu
People queue up for redress of Aadhaar related-queries at the Mega Lok Adalat organised by the Delhi State Legal Services Authority in New Delhi on ... Various government departments had set up a stall for providing services such as Aadhaar Cards enrolment and updation, ration card, pension, ...






India Today
Shimla, Feb 25 (PTI) The Himachal Pradesh State Election Commissioner was allegedly duped of around Rs 30,000, after a man, posing as a bank official, obtained his account details for Aadhaar seeding, the police said. According to a police complaint lodged by P Mitra, a few days back he received a ...



NDTV
Just like Aadhaar card and PAN (Permanent Account Number) card, an individual's driving licence can also be stored in DigiLocker, a cloud-based platform for issuance, storage, sharing and verification of documents and certificates in digital form. DigiLocker enables select registered organisations to ...






The Indian Express
According to Vyas, the SOG has been on the lookout for illegal immigrants from Bangladesh after the city has witnessed a spate of incidents of gangs cheating people, primarily senior citizens. The police also confiscated an Aadhaar card and PAN card, 36 SIM cards and four mobile handsets. The gang ...






TeleAnalysis
It was alleged that the payments bank staff used to open customer's savings account without their exclusive consent. The representatives at the outlets used to fraudulently use customers' Aadhaar numbers to open such accounts. Upon the revelation of the information, UIDAI, the AAdhaar authority had ...






India Today
Bhopal: Fire breaks out at a textile mill run by the National Textile Corporation (NTC) here. BOM1 GJ-PNB FRAUD-DIAMOND BIZ Surat: Diamond industry in Surat is hopeful that its business will not be affected adversely if banks tighten the lending norms in the wake of Rs 11,400-crore fraud at Punjab ...






Daily Pioneer
Jharkhand would be probably first state of the country where the fleet of common service centres (CSCs) or Pragya Kendra spread all across, especially in smaller towns and villages, would double as telemedicine centres. Department of IT and e-Governance has prepared itself to launch the medical ...






NDTV
"My contention was that the people should be given ration on the basis of their ration cards and that people have the right to beat up officials obstructing its implementation," he said. In an order issued on Tuesday, the Delhi government had said that ration beneficiaries will no longer need Aadhaar to buy ...



The Telegraph
... said the regional passport centre would help many people who otherwise had to go to Bhubaneswar for obtaining a passport. "The procedure for obtaining a passport under tatkal scheme has also been made simpler. The requirement is Aadhaar card and an undertaking stating that the applicant has ...






Hindustan Times
Taneja had received a phone call in July with the caller identifying himself as the employee of the bank he had an account in and asking for his account details to link his Aadhaar card with the bank account. Suresh had then used the information to generate the OTP which Taneja received on his mobile ...






The Tribune
“The accused took the victim in confidence and procured details, including one-time password (OTP) received by him on his mobile phone, on the pretext of linking Aadhaar with his bank account,” the police said. The accused then transferred money from the victim's bank account. The police said ...