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

Sunday, May 27, 2018

13592 - Aadhaar Articles Dated 26th May 2018



Aadhaar protected by high-tech encryption, authentication: UIDAI chairman
Economic Times
New Delhi: The world's largest ID database Aadhaar is protected by high-tech encryption, multi-layered authentication and best-in-class security, ...





Collect evidence if denied service: Aadhaar activists
The Hindu
Petitioners in the Aadhaar case in the Supreme Court — Vickram Crishna, Kamayani Bali Mahabal and G. Nagarjuna — and other activists were ...





Aadhaar card must for Modicare, but with a small exemption
ThePrint
To avail benefits under the Modicare scheme, the Aadhaar card will be mandatory from the second visit onwards. Other IDs to work for the first visit.





MoneyOnMobile launches biometric ATM solution leveraging Aadhaar
Biometric Update
Biometric MOM ATMs leverage the company's banking partners' Open Banking APIs and the Aadhaar national ID, enabling consumers to withdraw ...

Aadhaar micro ATMs: All you need to know about this cardless, pinless banking - Times Now


Citizens decry 'wrongful imposition' of Aadhaar
Mumbai Mirror
In March 2018, the highest court in the land indefinitely extended the deadline for Aadhaar linkage with bank accounts and all central and state ...





How to Check Your Aadhaar Authentication History Online
Headlines of Today
Check Your Aadhaar Authentication History Online, The government has made it compulsory to link aadhar with different schemes.UIDAI has ...





Airtel Payments Bank appoints ex-ICICI executive Anubrata Biswas as MD, CEO
Economic Times
The resignation of Arora coincided with suspension of Airtel Payments Bank e-KYC licence by Aadhaar-issuing body Unique Identification Authority of ...

Airtel Payments Bank appoints Anubrata Biswas of ICICI Bank as CEO to replace Shashi Arora - Financial Express

Airtel appoints Anubrata Biswas as its new MD & CEO of its payments bank - MediaNama.com

Airtel Payments Bank ropes in Anubrata Biswas as its chief executive - ETTelecom.com


Non locals turned back from Mao gate, three held at Tengnoupal with fake Aadhaar cards Govt ...
E-Pao.net
The source further said that today also 17 non locals without proper identity proofs like Aadhaar card, voter identity card and card issued by their ...





MoneyOnMobile Announces Launch Of New Biometric ATM Product
Inc42 Media
The Aadhaar Enabled Payment System (AePS), a Government of India initiative, was launched to empower a bank's customer to use Aadhaar as ...





Minimal information, data purpose critical in ensuring privacy, protection of user information: Experts
Economic Times
Satyanarayana asserted that Aadhaar is intended at empowerment of citizens, and that giving a unique identity to people and providing a robust ...

India urgently needs strict data protection law: Experts - The New Indian Express


Spelling errors cost 30 BMC workers their jobs
Mumbai Mirror
... the services of 30 conservancy workers citing discrepancies in their names in court records and identity-proof documents such as Aadhaar card, ...





Poor signal leaves many without ration
Times of India
PUNE: Pushpa Waghmode is not getting foodgrain from a fair price shop for two months now even as she had got her Aadhaar linked with the ration ...





UGC allows top universities and colleges to offer online courses
Livemint
Aadhaar cards and passports shall be used to authenticate Indian and foreign students, respectively, for all online interactions, including ...

UGC allows universities and colleges to offer online degree courses - Deccan Herald


BJP-ruled Manipur intensifies drive to prevent entry of Rohingya refugees
Hindustan Times
While Soe carried a fake Aadhaar card that identified him as Asaddullah of Kollam in Kerala, Tun had papers claiming that he was Mohammed ...





How a letter to PM Modi ensured Aadhaar card to kids at Allahabad orphanage
Kaplan Herald
Acting on the media reports, UID official dispatched a special team from Lucknow which made Aadhaar cards of children at the orphanage centre ...





Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams: Sarva Darshan counters open after 2-day hiatus
The New Indian Express
The JEO urged all pilgrims to bring Aadhaar cards for identification. “Aadhaar is a must for Sarva Darshan. Voter id cards can be submitted only if the ...





Digitised policies have higher renewal rates: CAMS Repository CEO
Moneycontrol.com
Now, since e-Insurance Account needs identity proof like PAN or Aadhaar, this has been a challenge for both the customer and the sales person.





The eyes have it as world warms to Cambridge iris recognition
Business Weekly
The flagship of all these projects is the Unique IDentification Authority of India (UIDAI), which in 2010 launched its Aadhaar program to enrol the ...





Govt reconstitutes FSDC, includes secretaries from revenue dept, MeitY
India Today
Back home, amid data privacy concerns over use of biometric Aadhaar, the Supreme Court earlier this month reserved its verdict on a batch of ...





Manipur: Three Myanmar nationals held in state
thenortheasttoday.com
Police said that Thant Zin Soe was studying at Darool Uloom, UP and has completed a two year course and his fake name and address in the aadhaar ...





Bhakt, Gau Rakshak and Other Terms Unique to Modi's India
The Quint
Aadhaar – A 'Make in India' initiative that showed Mark Zuckerberg that we don't need Facebook to leak our personal data. Yes, take that, Mark.
Problem solving leadership - Daily Pioneer


FSDC reconstituted to include more members
Economic Times
NEW DELHI: The government has reconstituted the Financial Stability and Development Council (FSDC), the apex body of financial sector regulators, ...





ET View: India must enact a data protection law quickly
Economic Times
There should be specific protection for the individual against unjustified surveillance. Privacy and data are issues that really go beyond just Aadhaar.





Leetul Gogoi, driver barged into house, alleges woman's mother
Economic Times
The woman was allowed to join her family after a magistrate recorded her statement on Wednesday. As per her school record, Aadhaar card and bank ...

Probe on in girl case involving major - The Telegraph India
Major Gogoi of 'Human Shield' Infamy Detained at Hotel With Local Woman, Police Begin Probe - NewsClick

Hotel fracas: Girl states she met Major of her 'own will' - The Tribune


Patient data shouldn't be compromised
Business Line
The recent reports of Aadhaar data leakage and the still recent breach of information by Facebook of its registered users have posed more questions ...

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