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, April 10, 2018

13243 - Aadhaar Articles Dated 10th April 2018




Aadhaar,
Daily update ⋅ 10 April 2018


NEWS



Economic Times
A lot of people heaved a sigh of relief last month when the Supreme Court, through an interim ruling, indefinitely extended the Aadhaar linking deadline with various documents and accounts. The Supreme Court is yet to decide on several petitions to make Aadhaar mandatory for government services ...



Financial Express
The UIDAI has brought in secure digitally-signed QR Code on e-Aadhaar that will now contain photograph of the Aadhaar holder too, in addition to demographic details, to facilitate better offline verification of an individual. “The UIDAI (Unique Identification Authority of India) has recently replaced existing ...



The New Indian Express
NEW DELHI: The Centre has issued a notification linking Aadhar with new driving licences issued from April 1, 2018, onwards. The move comes less than a month after the Supreme Court indefinitely extended the government's March 31 deadline for linking various services with Aadhaar. The Ministry of ...






The Quint
A district collector working in the Manipur government has shared an eye-opening account about how the lack of an Aadhaar card in the present context can eventually threaten the very existence of a person. Taking to Twitter to narrate a personal incident, IAS officer Kannan Gopinathan said he was ...






Oneindia
New Delhi, April 10: At a time when doubts over Aadhaar have been raised over the issue of privacy, a woman from Rajasthan, suffering from mental illness, got reunited with her family recently because her biometric details existed with the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI). In November last ...






India.com
New Delhi, Apr 10: The Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC.com) has come up with an exciting offer for its users. The IRCTC is offering a cash prize of up to Rs 10,000 on linking Aadhaar card number with registered IRCTC user ID. According to the Indian Railways, the offer is valid ...






Zee News
New Delhi: Since March this year, RBI has made it mandatory to make mobile payment wallets KYC-compliant. Hence, if you have not made yourself KYC-compliant, you must not have been able to load fresh funds into your mobile wallet. However, customers who still have balances in such wallets or ...






NDTV
The method described below involves Aadhaar eKYC, so if your name is correct on Aadhaar card, you can follow the steps below and get it changed on PAN card. If not, you will need to submit documents showing that your name has changed or has been printed incorrectly. These documents include ...






The Hindu
A senior official said the notification amending the tax rules was brought out in view of some representations received. “Individuals from the transgender community were facing hassles in obtaining a PAN card and this problem was further magnified as Aadhaar had the third gender category but not PAN.






Financial Express
The date of linking Aadhaar to existing insurance policies is extended till a judgment is passed by Supreme Court of India. However, linking it helps in faster completion of eKYC of policy. * We took an LIC policy in 1995 for our daughter who was 12 years then. In 2003 she moved to USA and is settled ...






MediaNama.com
At this point, it is clear that the government is narrowly defining Aadhaar data as the data contained within the Aadhaar database and consider a breach as strictly the data being accessed on the CIDR. Therefore any breaches involving passwords, or authorized access (even if the authorization was ...






Eastern Mirror
New Delhi, April 9 (PTI): The UIDAI has brought in secure digitally-signed QR Code on e-Aadhaar that will now contain photograph of the Aadhaar holder too, in addition to demographic details, to facilitate better offline verification of an individual. “The UIDAI (Unique Identification Authority of India) has ...






Live Law
He then explained his position in the Aadhaar case and the arguments and counter-arguments presented before the Supreme Court. He also explained why compulsory requirement of Aadhaar for social security schemes was against its very “voluntariness” and compared with the Social Security ...






Times of India
These companies have sought help from the statutory authority under the Aadhaar Act 2016 to address the issue so that they can arrest the steep fall in their customer on-boarding. Last week, we reported that KUAs (e-KYC user agencies) and AUAs (authorized user agencies) will no longer be able to ...






The Statesman
As Passport Seva Kendra (PSK) officials in Siliguri announced that issuance of fresh passport had become easier after the government made submission of the Aadhaar card 'not mandatory,' people have welcomed such a decision and said those still waiting for their Aadhaar cards can now at least get ...






Millennium Post
Earlier, the Delhi government had warned all private schools in the Capital against asking for Aadhaar number of children, while admitting them in entry-level classes under the EWS or the disadvantaged group (DG) categories and refusing admission to such students on grounds of their distance from ...






Outlook India
New Delhi: The UIDAI has brought in secure digitally-signed QR Code on e-Aadhaar that will now contain photograph of the Aadhaar holder too, in addition to demographic details, to facilitate better offline verification of an individual. DCM54 BIZ-LD XIAOMI. New Delhi: Chinese handset maker Xiaomi ...






E-Pao.net
... (65) hailing from Silchar was found to have changed his name to "Luwangthem Gyanendro Das" in various documents, including his Aadhaar card. ... in the voter list of 10/33 Uripok A/C and possesses many valid documents with the name "Luwangthem Gyanendro Das", including an Aadhaar card.






Times of India
Under MAS, state agencies will procure farmers' produce and state governments will ensure direct payment of MSP into Aadhaar-linked farmers' accounts. The Centre will bear the cost of expenditure to some point (maximum 15%) and there will be some sharing between the Centre and states beyond ...






The Hindu
Senior advocate Sajan Poovayya, for advocate Ashwini Kumar Upadhyay, asked how these “illegal immigrants” have ration cards, Aadhaar cards, etc. He said it was only reasonable to expect that Indian citizens get the "first bite of the cherry". Senior advocate Mahesh Jethmalani said "we cannot have ...






Firstpost
Rawat also informed that a process is underway to link Aadhaar number with the individual voter's ID card. Asked about the suggestion of conducting the Lok Sabha and Assembly polls simultaneously, he said, "Unless necessary amendments are made in the Constitution and (relevant) laws, it is not ...






Business Today
... and nationality; it is then deleted from Yoti's systems. In the coming months, Yoti will also support other Indian documents such as Aadhaar, driving licence and PAN. After being verified on Yoti, the users can then use the digital identity provided by the company to provide verification in online portals.






Inc42 Media
Some of the major digital payment modes are Online or mobile wallets, Prepaid credit cards, Debit/RuPay cards, Aadhaar Enabled Payment System, Unstructured Supplementary Service Data based mobile banking, United Payments Interface (UPI), Bharat Interface for Money (BHIM) app, etc.






Livemint
They don't have a work permit, no Aadhaar card and children cannot go to school. This is a group of people who have nobody to turn to for help, worst of the worst,” Dhawan added. The Centre said it could not discriminate between city slum dwellers and the Rohingyas living in the same settlements in ...






Times of India
Rawat said that a process is underway to link Aadhaar number with the individual voter ID card. Recommended By Colombia. When asked about conducting the Lok Sabha and assembly polls simultaneously, he said, “Unless necessary amendments are made in the Constitution and laws, it is not good ...