AADHAAR RELATED ARTICLES: 13110 - Aadhaar Articles Dated 26th March 2018

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

Tuesday, March 27, 2018

13110 - Aadhaar Articles Dated 26th March 2018

Security experts say need to secure Aadhaar ecosystem, warn about third party leaks

Economic Times

While the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) has maintained that its database is secure and there are no breaches of Aadhaar data from its system, security researchers warn that leaks are happening in third-party sites and it is important for the agency to ensure that its ecosystem adopts ...

UIDAI set to introduce face authentication feature from July 1 - Economic Times

Amid Aadhaar Hearings In Supreme Court, UIDAI Prepares To Launch Face Authentication - Inc42 Media

Aadhaar data leak via two PSEs, fixed a month after alert: Experts - Times of India

Irdai extends Aadhaar linking deadline for insurance policies

Economic Times

Insurance regulator Irdai has extended the deadline for linking 12-digit unique identity number Aadhaar with various insurance policies until the ... The Supreme Court of India in Writ Petition (vide order dated March 13) extended the deadline of linking Aadhaar till the matter is finally heard and the ...

Irdai extends deadline for linking Aadhaar with various insurance policies - Business Standard

Alphons compares Aadhaar with US visa scan, sparks row

Times of India

The former bureaucrat-turned-minister on Sunday reiterated that Aadhaar was completely safe and secure. “There is no case of anything leaked from a biometric system. What is given in Aadhaar are just name and address. Your biometric data is with UIDAI and let me assure you that it has not been ...

People question Aadhaar, but will get naked before white man for visa: KJ Alphons - Times of India

People question Aadhaar, but ready to get naked before white man for visa: KJ Alphons - Economic Times

'Getting naked before white man for US visa is fine, but ruckus over Aadhaar': Alphons - The News Minute

Here's another security warning for Aadhaar

Gadgets Now

While Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) has maintained its database is secure and there are no breaches of Aadhaar data from its system, security researchers warn that leaks are happening in third-party sites and it is important for the agency to ensure that its ecosystem adopts measures to ...

Aadhaar user verification: UIDAI set to introduce face authentication feature from July 1

Zee Business

Aadhaar user verification: The UIDAI, which is in-charge of the 12-digit identifier Aadhaar, in January had announced that it will introduce face authentication feature to help those who run into problems in biometric authentication due to old age, hardwork or worn-out fingerprints. It had said that face ...

Aadhaar Analytica: Why both data protection scandals should deeply disturb everyone

Scroll.in

The Bharatiya Janata Party-run government and other supporters of the Aadhaar project seem to have taken the recent Facebook-Cambridge Analytica revelations as an opportunity rather than a warning sign. The controversy, which involves the Facebook user data of more than 50 million people being ...

250000 cattle in MP stamped with unique 12-digit Aadhaar-like number

Business Standard

The cattle UID would then be linked to the Aadhaar number of its owner which in turn would check the illegal sale and purchase, smuggling and abandoning of cattle, he added. "With this, we can keep an eye on the productivity of the animals which can be enhanced with improvement in its breed.

CPI(M) criticises Alphons' Aadhaar remark

Business Standard

Alphons earlier today said that people are raising question over Aadhaar card validity 'but are ready to get naked before white man for visa.' Criticising the Minister's remarks, Yechury said the question is not about getting naked or giving biometrics to a country for the visa, the question is information is ...

Still getting messages to link Aadhaar by March 31? You can rest easy

Times of India

On Sunday, Insurance regulator IRDAI (Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India) announced the extension of the deadline for linking the biometric-based 12-digit unique identity number Aadhaar with various insurance policies. The pronouncement came in the wake of the Supreme ...

5 Things To Know About Aadhaar For Children

NDTV

Aadhaar, the 12-digit unique identity number issued by the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI), is a compulsory identity card. A number of government schemes require applicants to provide details of their Aadhaar card number. Everyone can enroll for Aadhaar - even a newborn child, ...

Facebook-Cambridge Analytica row: Whether on FB or Aadhaar, societal need for privacy trumps ...

Firstpost

India has already succeeded in building a 'cradle to grave' Panspectron by seeding citizens' unique biometric identifier across databases. Aadhaar has allowed for an informationisation of life where “...the human body is reduced to a set of numbers that can be stored, retrieved and reconstituted across ...

Narendra Modi's employment woes: How Aadhaar-based headcount can help

Financial Express

narendra modi, employment, India employment news, aadhaar card, population survey The recent hold up of 'Locals', the economic lifeline of Mumbai, reportedly by some students, has once again highlighted the urgent need for job creation, a priority mission in which the government has not been able ...