Tuesday, March 27, 2018

13110 - Aadhaar Articles Dated 26th March 2018



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 ...






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 ...





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 ...






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 ...






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 ...






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 ...






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.






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 ...






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 ...






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, ...






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 ...






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 ...