|
|
Business Today
Aadhaar issuing body UIDAI has sserted that schools cannot make the 12-digit biometric identifier a pre-condition for student admission and warned ...
|
|
||||||
|
|
India Today
Aadhaar card related scams are on a rise in India. Scamsters are using new and innovative means to siphon money from innocent citizens. The rising ...
|
|
||||||
|
|
Moneylife
State Bank of India (SBI), the country's largest lender, has decided to discontinue Aadhaar-based payment system (AEPS) and had informed its ...
|
|
||||||
|
|
NewsClick
Three months after the Supreme Court delivered its Judgement on the Constitutional validity of Aadhaar and the Aadhaar Act, two review petitions ...
Review Petition Filed In SC Against Constitution Bench's Aadhaar Judgment [Read Petition] - Live Law
|
|
||||||
|
|
News18
New Delhi: A review petition was filed in the Supreme Court on Monday seeking re-examination of its verdict by which the Centre's flagship Aadhaar ...
|
|
||||||
|
|
Financial Express
Although the government says that Aadhaar data is completely safe and secure, and there is no need to panic, many people are still scepticle about its ...
|
|
||||||
|
|
Zoom
The petition filed by Imtiyaz Ali Palsaniya challenges the Section 139AA and it said that the September 29, the judgment did not examine certain vital ...
|
|
||||||
|
|
Firstpost
2018 has been a very significant year for privacy and data protection in India, triggered in part by the Aadhaar case and the affirmation of the ...
|
|
||||||
|
|
Daily News & Analysis
Farmers in Alwar, who lined up for urea purchase at the authorised centres, were in for a shock when they were asked to produce their Aadhaar cards.
|
|
||||||
|
|
The Hindu BusinessLine
Restrictions on the use of Aadhaar could make online know-your-customer (KYC) process a challenge for 'payday loans', says Sudip Bandyopadhyay, ...
|
|
||||||
|
|
Scroll.in
Aadhaar Act: Jairam Ramesh moves Supreme Court challenging passage of law as Money Bill. Congress leader and Rajya Sabha member Jairam ...
|
|
||||||
|
|
Kashmir Reader
SRINAGAR: The process of Aadhaar enrolment of left out students in schools is underway in different designated centres in all the Districts of Kashmir ...
|
|
||||||
|
|
Livemint
For EPFO, 2018 was about pushing ahead the agenda of digitisation on the backbone of Aadhaar KYC authentication so that EPF accounts could ...
|
|
||||||
|
|
ETtech.com
Supreme Court/ Aadhaar judgement - This year, the highest judicial body Supreme Court decided on very crucial issues, Aadhaar being one.
|
|
||||||
|
|
The Hindu
The CM said the government had adopted Aadhaar as one of the most important datasets for the implementation of development and welfare ...
|
|
||||||
|
|
Deccan Herald
... the portal http://eattest.karnataka.gov. in has been created using the strengths of Aadhaar based e-sign and blockchain features to create a trustable ...
|
|
||||||
|
|
Financial Express
... emerged as the most important searched term in the year “A HuffPost India investigation into the hacking of the Aadhaar software came in at No.
|
|||||||
Friday, December 28, 2018
13995 - Aadhaar Articles Dated 26th December 2018
Wednesday, December 26, 2018
13994 - AAdhaar Articles Dated 24th Dec 2018
|
|
Business Today
Aadhaar, India's extraordinary attempt to give every citizen a biometric identity, is set for a massive revamp with new offline verification tools and ...
|
|
||||
|
|
Economic Times
NEW DELHI: A review petition was filed in the Supreme Court Monday seeking to re-examine its verdict by which the Centre's flagship Aadhaar ...
Aadhaar case: Review petition filed against Supreme Court verdict upholding validity of scheme - Scroll.in
|
|
||||
|
|
Moneylife
This is because 'Pay to Aadhaar' (number) is an additional functionality in UPI and allows withdrawals through this route as well. This only underlines ...
|
|
||||
|
|
India Today
The Election Commission of India (ECI) is reportedly making renewed efforts to link citizen voter IDs to Aadhaar-the UIDAI's contentious biometric ID, ...
|
|
||||
|
|
Yahoo India News
New Delhi, Dec 24: Aadhaar, India's extraordinary attempt to give every citizen a biometric identity, is set for a massive revamp with new offline ...
|
|
||||
|
|
Telegraph India
Many families depend on two entitlements for survival: social security pensions and rations from the public distribution system. By Jean Drèze.
|
|
||||
|
|
The New Indian Express
The Government has asked schools across the State to ensure Aadhaar enrolment of all students by January 15 next year.
|
|
||||
|
|
The New Indian Express
Officials there tried to enroll him for Aadhaar card but his application was rejected. Same is the case with many orphans and mentally challenged ...
|
|
||||
|
|
The Shillong Times
Authoritarian regimes tend to think they are for ever. And they create draconian rules to drive their agendas, but without realising that they could some ...
|
|
||||
|
|
India Times
Not only this, the much talked and criticised Aadhaar system also got clarity. The Supreme Court ruled that Aadhaar was constitutional but making it ...
|
|
||||
|
|
Observer Research Foundation
... Supreme Court judgment of last year which had declared privacy to be a fundamental right, and this year's decision restricting the use of Aadhaar.
|
|
||||
|
|
VCCircle
In September, the Supreme Court upheld the constitutional validity of the Aadhaar Act. However, the judgment restricted the use of the identification ...
|
|
||||
|
|
Times of India
The modus operandi was that several bogus companies and bank accounts were created using PAN and Aadhaar number of family members and ...
|
|
||||
|
|
Business Standard
The police recovered two genuine Aadhaar cards, two fake Aadhaar cards, one voter ID, two PAN cards, three mobile phones, two ATM cards and a ...
|
|
||||
|
|
Pune Mirror
“We got Aadhaar details of suspects. We are in touch with all the victims over phone. The accused have left behind quite a lot of footprint and we hope ...
|
|
||||
|
|
OrissaPOST
There were celebrations across the nation after this judgement. Sadly, however, the same SC while dealing with the Aadhaar matter, just a few months ...
|
|
||||
|
|
Times of India
“The LMA officials are now intimidating civilians by declining entry to cyclists on some roads and asking for Aadhaar card as proof to allow them into ...
|
|
||||
|
|
Daijiworld.com
Farmers who have borrowed loans should submit copies of Aadhaar card and ration card obtained before July 5 this year with self declaration, survey ...
|
|
||||
|
|
The Hindu
... is utterly against the spirit of recent Supreme Court judgments on privacy, Aadhaar and the Srikrishna Committee Report on Data Protection. It turns ...
|
|||||
Tuesday, December 25, 2018
13993 - Rahul slams ‘insecure dictator’ for assault on right to privacy - Telegraph India
Congress rejected the government’s defence that the notification followed the IT Act 2000, which was amended in 2009
By Sanjay K. Jha in New Delhi
- Published 22.12.18, 3:00 AM
Congress president Rahul Gandhi accused Narendra Modi of trying to convert India into a police state.
Prem Singh
Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Friday saw symptoms of an “insecure dictator” in the government’s surveillance order as a joint Opposition vociferously protested what it described as the spectre of an Orwellian state and an assault on the right to privacy.
As the political storm gathered and general Internet users resented the snoop plan, Rahul tweeted: “Converting India into a police state isn’t going to solve your problems, Modi Ji. It’s only going to prove to over one billion Indians, what an insecure dictator you really are.”
The Congress firmly rejected the government’s defence that the notification was the continuation of rules framed under the Information Technology Act 2000, which was amended in 2009.
The Congress asserted that the latest notification went far beyond the scope of the law and was unconstitutional if viewed against the backdrop of the new legal scheme created by the right to privacy and Aadhaar judgments of the Supreme Court.
“If there is no change, what was the need for this notification by the home ministry now?” asked Congress spokesperson and lawyer Abhishek Manu Singhvi.
He told The Telegraph: “The Supreme Court has fundamentally changed the legal framework with the right to privacy and Aadhaar judgments. This order is illegal, apart from being draconian.”
Arguing that the 2009 rules allowed phone tapping on a case-to-case basis, Singhvi said: “The list of agencies have now been expanded and given sweeping powers. It goes beyond telephone tapping and call interceptions and there is no judicial or parliamentary oversight.
“What was needed is reform of the rules in the light of privacy becoming a fundamental right and the Aadhaar judgment stipulating judicial oversight, but the government brought a draconian notification without any consultation.”
Many Congress leaders claimed that the order would be scrapped by the court in a minute and hoped the majority of the people, particularly youths, would revolt against any attempt to place them under surveillance.
Bringing other political parties on the same platform to oppose the move, the Congress aggressively launched a social media campaign to spread the message. It promptly coined a slogan — “Abki baar/Stalker sarkar.”
The Opposition staged a boisterous protest in both Houses of Parliament.
Appearing before the media along with other Opposition leaders, the Congress’s Anand Sharma said: “We are seriously concerned over the home ministry order of December 20 that authorises security and intelligence agencies for the purposes of interception, monitoring and decryption of any information generated, transmitted, received or stored in any computer resource.
“This is a very serious development. Through this order, the BJP government is converting India into a surveillance state. It is the ultimate assault on the fundamental rights and the right to privacy. It is also in direct conflict with the Supreme Court judgment that the right to privacy is a fundamental right.
“The government has done it by stealth. We collectively oppose it because this gives unlimited powers to all these agencies to monitor every information. Such surveillance is unacceptable in our democracy.”
Sharma said the Opposition had been expressing concern for the past three-four years that phones of political rivals, top officials, judges of high courts and the Supreme Court, and big industrialists were being tapped.
“This poses a big threat to our democracy and this is not acceptable. We will fight it collectively,” he said.
Other Opposition leaders, including the Samajwadi Party, Trinamul Congress, RJD, NCP and the DMK, also opposed the move, describing it as an attempt to create an “Orwellian State”.
Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee sought public opinion on the matter. She maintained that “blanket surveillance” was not favoured by law.
At another media conference, Congress spokesperson Jaiveer Shergill said: “The Modi government has a notorious track record of devising ways to infringe upon the privacy of citizens and this order is also violative of the IT Act, the right to privacy judgment and the Aadhaar judgment. Now we understand the meaning of the 2014 slogan ‘ghar-ghar Modi’.”
When the BJP said "Ghar Ghar Modi", we didn't think they'd take it so seriously. #chowkidarJasoosHai
According to Shergill, Section 69 of the IT Act, under which the order was issued, grants the power to the government to intercept computers on a case-by-case basis only on the ground of protecting the sovereignty and integrity of India, in public interest and preventing the commission of any offence.
“The new order is completely silent on the reasons for equipping the investigating agencies with vast powers,” the Congress leader said.
He added: “The order has bulldozed the right to privacy granted by the Supreme Court through its 547-page detailed judgment. The order has the potential to demolish the constitutional firewall created by the Supreme Court between the government and the citizens with respect to their informational privacy, bodily privacy and data privacy.”
Shergill insisted that the new order, instead of permitting interception of calls or data, allows agencies to tap calls, read online communication, access data stored in computer as well as intercept any digital information shared with others.
13992 - AAdhaar Articles Dated 22nd December 2018
|
|
Livemint
New Delhi: The union cabinet has allowed QR codes for voluntary use of Aadhaar card data for e-KYC authentication in order to obtain SIMs and open ...
|
|
||||||
|
|
Livemint
Even the Railways has begun accepting soft copies of Aadhaar and driving licence from your DigiLocker. The cloud-based platform has also tied up ...
|
|
||||||
|
|
The Indian Express
As 2018 draws to a close, we reflect back on some of the landmark verdicts delivered by the Supreme Court this year. From Aadhaar to Section 377, ...
|
|
||||||
|
|
Wall Street Journal
The program—named Aadhaar, the Hindi word for foundation—began signing up users in 2010 but took several years to roll out to almost all Indians.
|
|
||||||
|
|
Times of India
Not just this, in the case of linking Aadhaar numbers to accounts, we are even made to do verification of Aadhaar details and seeding of Aadhaar…
|
|
||||||
|
|
Telegraph India
He told The Telegraph: “The Supreme Court has fundamentally changed the legal framework with the right to privacy and Aadhaar judgments.
|
|
||||||
|
|
Daily Pioneer
People in far-flung villages are now able to receive social benefits, buy ration and make payments using their Aadhaar card. This has helped save the ...
|
|
||||||
|
|
Telegraph India
Even after a right to privacy judgment in 2017 and a reaffirmation in the Aadhaar verdict this year, the government continues to show scant respect for ...
Cong accuses Modi govt of violating citizens' right to privacy by indulging in 'data snooping' - Business Standard
|
|
||||||
|
|
News18
The Supreme Court struck down Sections 33(2) of the Aadhaar Act that previously allowed the disclosure of an individual's Aadhaar identity in the ...
|
|
||||||
|
|
Deccan Herald
... to snoop on every citizen is unconstitutional and in breach of the telephone tapping guidelines, the privacy judgement and the Aadhaar judgement.".
|
|
||||||
|
|
India Today
TMC lawmaker Mahua Moitra had moved the Supreme Court against UIDAI's plan to hire a social media agency to monitor the coverage of Aadhaar in ...
|
|
||||||
|
|
Milli Gazette
A lot of officials, be it for AADHAAR or passport, ask Muslim women who wear the hijab to remove the hijab or to show their ears for the biometric ...
|
|
||||||
|
|
The Hindu
The move appears similar to how the government ordered the linkage of Aadhaar to various services. Is this order a necessity now especially when ...
|
|
||||||
|
|
The Hindu
... bail seekers, along with ration cards and Aadhaar cards. We have also recovered rubber stamps made in the name of government offices, including ...
|
|
||||||
|
|
Times of India
Every eligible farmer must submit a copy of Aadhaar, BPL card (provided on or before July 5, 2018) and land survey No. on which the loan was ...
|
|
||||||
|
|
Brighter Kashmir (press release)
The recognition of this is in the 2018 Aadhaar judgement, which NOW requires judicial oversight,” Internet Freedom Foundation stated on Thursday.
|
|||||||
13991 - DNA law needs safeguards - Telengana Today
There is certainly a need for a law to enable state agencies to collect biological material but not without putting in place stringent mechanism
AuthorTelanganaTodayPublished: 22nd Dec 2018 12:12 amUpdated: 21st Dec 2018 10:50 pm
A thorough and ideology-neutral debate is necessary over a Bill that allows law enforcement agencies to collect DNA samples and create DNA profiles of people and special databanks for forensic-criminal investigations. The DNA Technology (Use and Application) Regulation Bill, 2018, which is before the Rajya Sabha for consideration, raises many ethical and sociological questions that need to be addressed properly before it becomes a law.
It is the modified version of a Bill originally framed by the Department of Biotechnology. The aim of that draft legislation was to set in place an institutional mechanism to collect and deploy DNA technologies to identify persons based on samples collected from crime scenes or for identifying missing persons.
However, there were some justifiable objections over the manner in which DNA information was to be collected and the way they were to be stored by forensic laboratories because they amounted to violation of privacy.
However, several clauses of the Bill have since been tightened to make it stronger and immune to data abuse. The data banks can only store information related to criminal investigations and the DNA details of suspects will be deleted.
The Bill also seeks to create a DNA Profiling Board that would be the final authority to authorise the creation of State-level DNA databanks, approve the methods of collection and analysis of DNA-technologies.
Creating large databases could raise questions similar to the raging debate over Aadhaar. Though the government maintains that the move is to merely expand the application of DNA-based forensic technologies to support and strengthen the justice delivery system, there are genuine concerns over privacy and security issues.
In the light of the August 2017 Supreme Court judgment ruling that privacy is a fundamental right, the new law must be in tune with the spirit of the verdict. Before enacting such laws, there has to be a significant improvement in capacity building regarding collection and use of DNA for forensic purposes.
The genes encoded in the DNA, which can be collected from blood, hair, skin cells and other such bodily substances, have proven to be an important tool in forensic science. Across the world, the use of DNA evidence has helped solve many complex criminal cases.
While there is certainly a need for a law to enable state agencies to collect biological material, stringent mechanism must be put in place to regulate the extraction of DNA evidence and the extent and scope of such extraction must not disproportionally contravene a person’s right to privacy. Before proceeding further on the new legislation, the government must address concerns regarding the chain of custody of DNA samples between crime scenes, labs and data banks and expansive powers of the DNA Regulatory Board.
Sunday, December 23, 2018
13990 - SC verdict on Aadhaar victory of people: Mamata Banerjee - Hermann Herald
December 21, 2018
SC verdict on Aadhaar victory of people: Mamata Banerjee
Days of the BJP government are over in the country, the chief minister said.
Share: Updated: Sep 26, 2018, 15:10 PM IST Source:PTI
Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee welcomed the Supreme Court‘s verdict on Aadhaar on Wednesday and termed it as a victory of the people.
“We welcome the verdict by the Supreme Court. It is a victory of the people of this country and we are very happy,” Banerjee said in Milan, Italy, where is on an official tour.
“Days of the BJP government are over in the country,” the chief minister added.
The apex court on Wednesday declared the Centre‘s flagship Aadhaar scheme as constitutionally valid but struck down some of its provisions including linking with bank accounts, mobile phones and school admissions.
Tags: Comments – Join the Discussion
13989 - Aadhaar Articles Dated 21st Dec 2018
|
|
India Today
Though the court has said that mobile numbers and bank accounts don't need to be linked with Aadhaar, this does not reduce the importance of the ...
|
|
||||||
|
|
Economic Times
With the SC judgement barring Aadhaar access to private entities, many companies are finding it difficult. From a policy perspective, what is it that the ...
|
|
||||||
|
|
Telegraph India
The disgruntled group cited a September 26 Supreme Court order that Aadhaar card was mandatory only for filing income tax returns and allotment of ...
|
|
||||||
|
|
Hermann Herald
SC verdict on Aadhaar victory of people: Mamata Banerjee. Days of the BJP government are over in the country, the chief minister said.
|
|
||||||
|
|
The Hans India
The banks and mobile phone companies can't insist on Aadhaar-linking anymore. A five-judge bench of Supreme Court on September 26, 2018 ruled ...
|
|
||||||
|
|
Deccan Herald
The reasons for pendency of claims include non-availability of bank account details, failure to validate Aadhaar, multiple cropping (growing two or ...
|
|
||||||
|
|
Telangana Today
Already, the Aadhaar biometric attendance system was being used in 9,349 government-run schools in 12 districts across Telangana. Now, the ...
|
|
||||||
|
|
DailyO
... even outdoes previous policy decisions such as Aadhaar which were deemed to be extremely invasive by many privacy activists in the country.
Govt gives license to snoop! MHA issues order authorising 10 agencies unfettered access to any ... - Times Now
The Govt. Just Gave Itself The Right To Invade Your Privacy, Thanks To This New Order - Youth Ki Awaaz
|
|
||||||
|
|
THE WEEK
The recognition of this is in the 2018 Aadhaar judgement, which NOW requires judicial oversight," Internet Freedom Foundation stated on Thursday.
|
|
||||||
|
|
News18
... on every citizen is unconstitutional and in breach of the telephone tapping guidelines, the Privacy Judgement and the Aadhaar judgment," he said.
|
|
||||||
|
|
The Wire
They range from business slowdown due to demonetisation and GST, to the denial of crucial services due to mandatory Aadhaar linkage.
|
|
||||||
|
|
Moneylife
He also obtained an Aadhaar which the government promised was the magic number to open all doors. His Aadhaar also has another wrong date of ...
|
|
||||||
|
|
LatestLY
Whether or not to link your Aadhaar with mobile phone number, Paytm and bank account was a question on top of the Indian common man's mind.
|
|
||||||
|
|
Quartz
“This order comes after the supreme court judgments on privacy and Aadhaar. The privacy judgment by itself now makes a stricter requirement of ...
|
|
||||||
|
|
Financial Express
With the objective of driving financial inclusion in rural areas along with the push by the government (introduction of Jan Dhan, Aadhaar and mobile), ...
|
|
||||||
|
|
The Hindu
This Christmas, Santa and me are a done deal. Like Modiji getting 2000% majority in 2019. (The assembly elections mean nothing, fools.) A couple of ...
|
|
||||||
|
|
NewsX
... wants to access in your PCs and laptops via a law that is from the times of the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance, just like Aadhaar is.
|
|
||||||
|
|
Newslaundry
... Foundation called this "unconstitutional" and "in breach of the telephone tapping guidelines, the Privacy Judgement and the Aadhaar judgement".
|
|
||||||
|
|
Deccan Chronicle
The BBMP head office currently has Aadhaar based biometric system for marking attendance. A senior officer in the BBMP administration department ...
|
|
||||||
|
|
Governance Now
Radha, who is part of the collective, narrates her story: “I didn't have any ID proof like Aadhaar card or anything. When I came in touch with SPYM, ...
|
|
||||||
|
|
The Indian Express
However, suspecting that the passengers had committed a crime, the driver of the car allegedly took their Aadhaar cards in exchange for not alerting ...
|
|
||||||
|
|
Business Standard
This order goes against the spirit of Supreme Court judgements on telephone tapping guidelines, the right to privacy judgement and the Aadhaar ...
|
|
||||||
|
|
Outlook India
Members' data are linked to unique Aadhaar Identity, it added. The EPFO manages social security funds of workers in the organised/semi organised ...
|
|
||||||
|
|
Outlook India
... on every citizen is unconstitutional and in breach of the telephone tapping guidelines, the Privacy Judgement and the Aadhaar judgement,"he said.
|
|
||||||
|
|
Financial Chronicle (press release) (blog)
Aadhaar is a unique digital identity and should not be handed over to anyone. The industry worked with the government on an OTP based digital ...
|
|
||||||
|
|
Why every Indian is being treated like a criminal? Yechury on report of all computers under govt ...
Daily News & Analysis
... every citizen is unconstitutional and in breach of the telephone tapping guidelines, the Privacy Judgement and the Aadhaar judgement," he tweeted.
|
|||||||
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)