AADHAAR RELATED ARTICLES: 13922 - Aadhaar Articles Dated 2nd October 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

Thursday, November 22, 2018

13922 - Aadhaar Articles Dated 2nd October 2018

Telcos asked to submit plan to stop Aadhaar-based verification by October 15

Economic Times

The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) has asked telcos to submit plans by October 15 to close down their Aadhaar-based authentication ...

You may need to go through new KYC process to delink Aadhaar from mobile - Economic Times

UIDAI asks telcos to submit plan to discontinue Aadhaar-based eKYC - Economic Times

Sector regulators must guide companies post SC's Aadhaar verdict, says UIDAI CEO Ajay Bhushan ... - Economic Times

Why India's supreme court allowed linking Aadhaar with PAN

Quartz

The supreme court's verdict on India's Aadhaar Act, pronounced last week (Sept. 26), walks a fine line between an individual's right to privacy and the ...

Aadhaar verdict brings India's banks back to square one - Quartz

If you delink Aadhaar, oil firms will need bank account details again for gas subsidy

Economic Times

Cooking gas consumers wishing to delink Aadhaar from their bank account after the Supreme Court verdict on the biometric identity will have to ...

Ill fares Aadhaar

The Indian Express

Despite some thoughtful lines, the recent Supreme Court judgment on Aadhaar perpetuates double standards in the way Aadhaar is imposed on the ...

Government, move fast on Aadhaar - Economic Times (blog)

Aadhaar linkage mandatory for PAN & filing ITR, not for bank accounts - Financial Express

Trust, Privacy and India's Urgent Need to Protect Both

Bloomberg

The world's biggest repository of citizen information, India's Aadhaar database, is now beyond the private sector's reach. That was the verdict last week ...

All you wanted to know about Aadhaar verdict

The Hindu BusinessLine

The insistence on Aadhaar has been one issue that has polarised public opinion in India like no other. If it made data privacy advocates see red, ...

What will happen to bank accounts opened through Aadhaar

Livemint

Mumbai: Last week, the Supreme Court said that customers can't be forced to link their bank accounts to Aadhaar. It also states that a bank account ...

Opinion | The Aadhaar verdict: everybody lost

Livemint

By noon last Wednesday, it seemed as if everybody had lost. The petitioners, journalists and civil society activists, who believed that Aadhaar was a ...

Aadhaar Verdict: Effect On Payments, Telecom Sector And Startups - Inc42 Media

SC put guardrails in the users' interests: iSPIRT on Aadhaar verdict - Business Standard

Supreme Court upholds the constitutionality of Aadhaar albeit conditionally - Lexology

How to link your Aadhaar with your PAN card

Livemint

While linking the two has become mandatory for existing PAN holders, so has quoting the Aadhaar number to get a new PAN. Effectively, Aadhaar is ...

Hyderabad university seeks support to develop local biometric tech for Aadhaar

Biometric Update

With a lack of Indian technology suppliers for the Aadhaar authentication ecosystem, the International Institute of Information Technology (IIIT) in ...

Aadhaar verdict: A bitter lesson for the Centre

Deccan Herald

The Supreme Court of India's September 26 judgement in K S Puttaswamy vs Union of India (also called Aadhaar case) is a first-hand lesson on good ...

Aadhaar verdict: Dissenting judge Justice DY Chandrachud feels Money Bill tag may be misused ... - Firstpost

Himal Interviews: Reetika Khera on Supreme Court verdict on Aadhaar

Himal Southasian

On 26 September 2018, India's Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of Aadhaar, the country's controversial biometric national-identification ...

Aadhaar verdict will complicate DigiLocker plan

Times of India

According to the motor vehicles department (MVD), in addition to examining the implications of Supreme Court verdict on Aadhaar on digital data as ...

Delhi HC asks govt to clarify Aadhaar not must for schools

Times of India

NEW DELHI: Delhi high court on Monday directed the AAP government to clarify by way of a notification that Aadhaar is not mandatory for schools ...

Woman back with family, thanks to Aadhaar

The Hindu

The day the Supreme Court upheld the validity of Aadhaar, the much-debated identity card helped reunite a 26-year-old woman and her newborn with ...

Fintech services sector rushes to find alternatives

Economic Times

BENGALURU: India's financial services sector that had come to rely on Aadhaar for customer authentication is bracing for uncertain times following ...