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

Wednesday, December 5, 2018

13959 - Aadhaar Related Articles Dated 18th Nov 2018


SBI's YONO suspends paperless a/c opening via Aadhaar, bank moves RBI on other options
Economic Times
The Supreme Court order on September 26 said it was not mandatory to link the 12-digit unique identification number Aadhaar for opening or availing ...

SBI moves RBI for alternative options to paperless account opening via Aadhaar on YONO - Business Today




Saved nearly Rs 90000 Crore through Aadhaar when we came to power: PM Modi
Economic Times
Addressing a public rally in Madhya Pradesh's Chhindwara, Prime Minister Narendra Modi claimed to have saved “nearly Rs 90,000 Crore” through ...





Aadhaar Body Head AB Pandey To Replace Hasmukh Adhia As Revenue Secretary
NDTV
Senior Gujarat-cadre IAS officer G C Murmu was Saturday named as the Secretary, Department of Expenditure, as part of a major bureaucratic ...





Aadhaar chief new Revenue Secy
The Tribune
New Delhi, November 17. The Centre on Saturday night carried out a major bureaucratic reshuffle shifting Ajay Bhushan Pandey, Chief of Unique ...

UIDAI chief Ajay Bhushan Pandey to be new revenue secy - Times of India


Finance Secretary Hasmukh Adhia to retire on November 30; Aadhaar CEO likely replacement
News Nation
Union Minister Arun Jaitley on Saturday announced that Finance Secretary Hasmukh Adhia will retire from the post at the end of November. Adhia ...

UIDAI Head Ajay Bhushan Pandey To Be Next Revenue Secretary - BloombergQuint
UIDAI CEO to replace Hasmukh Adhia as Revenue Secretary - The Hindu


Aadhaar-based technology has detected six crore fake beneficiaries. Centre has stopped theft of ...
Devdiscourse
Aadhaar-based technology has detected six crore fake beneficiaries. Centre has stopped theft of Rs 90,000 crore of country's money: PM.





Below the line
The Hindu BusinessLine
If you thought you can flash your Aadhaar card as a proof of your identity for your insurance needs with the Life Insurance Corporation (LIC), think ...





Centre probing multi-crore post-matric scholarship scam: Vijay Sampla
Outlook India
The scholarship money was deposited in fake accounts which were opened using the students' Aadhaar details, they added. A total scholarship ...





Scholarship scam: First case FIR registered against two private institutes
Times of India
... which was supposedly transferred to their Aadhaar-linked account. But the above institutes had not given any kind of scholarship to the students and ...

FIR lodged in HP scholarship scam - Outlook India

Himachal Pradesh: FIR registered in Rs 201 crore scholarship scam - Times of India


Congress, its 'naamdar' hurling abuses at me: Modi
Times of India
"We put a check on Rs 90,000-crore annual rip-off in fake names in welfare schemes after implementation of Aadhaar-based identification.





'Dirty tricks': How two BJP ministers in Chhattisgarh are trying to neutralise the Muslim vote
Scroll.in
“The caller said I only had to provide my Aadhaar card and he would take care of the rest,” she said. “When I asked about the dates, he said a large ...





PM Narendra Modi flays Congress over mention of cow in MP polls manifesto, says cheating in its ...
Financial Express
The use of Aadhaar-based technology has detected six crore fake beneficiaries of government schemes. My government has stopped the annual theft ...

Madhya Pradesh Elections: PM Modi questions Congress over mention of cow in manifesto, says ... - News Nation


Laying claim to your orphaned MF investments
The Hindu BusinessLine
... financial details — his PAN, Aadhaar number, bank account details and the usernames and passwords to his email and online investment accounts.





Farmers told to cooperate with officials in survey
The Hindu
... their lands and furnish their names, particulars of extent of damage and provide the front page of the bank pass book and a photocopy of Aadhaar.
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