Friday, April 13, 2018

13278 - Aadhaar Articles Dated 13th April 2018



Times of India
NEW DELHI: Aadhaar-based biometric authentication and a smart phone will be all you'll need to board domestic flights in India soon. The government will issue the all-approved template of this paperless and hassle-free "digi yatra" by the end of this month after which airports will be free to adopt the ...






Economic Times
Supreme Court refers to Cambridge Analytica breach in Aadhaar hearing, raises concerns ... Justice Chandrachud is part of a five-judge bench led by Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra that is hearing a challenge to the Aadhaar (Targeted Delivery of Financial and Other Subsidies, Benefits and Services) ...






Live Law
As the hearing in the string of writ petitions challenging the constitutionality of the Aadhaar project resumed on Thursday, Additional Solicitor General (ASG) Tushar Mehta continued his submissions on the mandate of linking Aadhaar number with bank accounts under the Prevention of Money ...






The Wire
The Maharashtra women and child development department made it “necessary” for beneficiaries to register their Aadhaar numbers in a notification dated April 6, the Indian Express reported. “If a beneficiary is found with no registered Aadhaar number or has not followed the procedure to apply for ...






Inc42 Media
In legal purview, the merits of Aadhaar can't be used as a defence against the demerits of it. While Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad terms Aadhaar a 'digital identity' that supplements one's 'physical identity' the Supreme Court of India, hearing AG KK Venugopal and ASG Tushar Mehta's arguments ...






Financial Express
The IMF today said India should take necessary measures to ensure privacy and security controls while implementing large identification programmes like the Aadhaar, as the global financial body identified India as a leader in the biometric identification system. The International Monetary Fund in its ...




MediaNama.com
In response to unstarred question 4589 in the Rajya Sabha, by Derek O'Brien about “Incidents of breach of Aadhaar data”, Minister of State for Electronics and Information Technology, K. J. Alphons has denied any leaks and breaches of the Aadhaar database and provided information about how the ...






Business Standard
The IMF has said India should take necessary measures to ensure privacy and security controls while implementing large identification programmes like the Aadhaar, as the global financial body identified India as a leader in the biometric identification system. The International Monetary Fund in its fiscal ...



Times of India
Virtual ID will be a 16-digit number mapped to Aadhaar number. Once citizens generate a Virtual ID, they can provide that number for authentication. If a devotee provides Virtual ID to TTD, they will enter it into the system and receive a token that authenticates it, and provides a limited set of demographic ...






NDTV
Washington: The International Monetary Fund (IMF) today said India should take necessary measures to ensure privacy and security controls while implementing large identification programmes like the Aadhaar, as the global financial body identified India as a leader in the biometric identification system ...




MediaNama.com
The government will be issuing an “all approved” template for “paperless and hassle free” Digi Yatra by the end of the month, reports ToI. According to the report, all it will take to board a domestic flight would be a smart phone for e-Aadhaar and biometric based authentication. Once the template is ...






MediaNama.com
This is a record of the proceedings in the Supreme Court bench hearings on the Constitutional validity of Aadhaar, which began on Feb 13, 2018. You may read the previous days' proceedings here: Day 1, Day 2, Day 3, Day 4, Day 5, Day 6, Day 7, Day 8, Day 9, Day 10, Day 11, Day 12, Day 13, Day 14, ...






India Legal
The Supreme Court Constitution Bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justices AK Sikri, AM Khanwilkar, DY Chandrachud and Ashok Bhushan resumed hearing on the batch of petitions challenging the validity of Aadhaar Act and Aadhaar linkages on Thursday (April 12) with Additional Solicitor ...






Business Standard
During the course of the hearing, when Dwivedi told the bench that the UIDAI only knew about the request of authentication of identity and nothing about the transactions being undertaken by the Aadhaar holder, Justice Sikri said: "You may not have details of transactions but you have the details of ...






Clipper28 (satire) (press release) (blog)
The top court has questioned the government as to how it can suspend bank accounts merely because of failure to link it with Aadhaar number. Hearing the case, a five-judge constitution bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra also questioned certain provisions of the Prevention of Money ...






Financial Express
Even as Aadhaar's credibility is being questioned, paperless travel could soon become a reality, according to a top aviation expert. “Our research shows that 70 per cent of passengers in India said they would definitely use biometrics if given the option, removing the need to show a passport or boarding ...
Travel: Open Sesame! - BW Businessworld




The Quint
In a notification dated 6 April, the Maharashtra Women and Child Development (WCD) department made it “necessary” to start registering Aadhaar card numbers of the beneficiaries. The notification in Marathi follows the Centre's direction on 6 February this year. The state WCD stated: “If a beneficiary is ...






The Tribune
Even as Aadhaar's credibility is being questioned, paperless travel could soon become a reality, according to a top aviation expert. ... Leveraging India's national Aadhaar biometric identity system, together with SITA's Smart Path technology, would be able to provide secure and efficient journey through ...








The Quint
Seeding Aadhaar with PAN and bank accounts and other facilities would help authorities in effectively dealing with the global threat of money laundering, Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) told the Supreme Court on 11 April. Appearing for UIDAI, Additional Solicitor General Tushar Mehta ...






Economic Times (blog)
How can we target you best, leaving you with no shred of privacy? The Haryana government is still counting the ways. As if Aadhaar and the routine citizen data collection by a variety of state agencies weren't enough, now the education board has demanded more information from all schoolchildren in ...






Economic Times
For this, the incentives for merchants for using BHIM-Aadhaar platform will be significantly increased to 0.5% of the transaction value upto Rs 10,000 against the earlier 0.25% of the transaction value of just Rs 2,000. The government admits that the offtake of the earlier scheme for merchants has been ...