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, February 3, 2019

14032 - Aadhaar Related Articles Dated 1st Feb 2019


Indian state government leaks thousands of Aadhaar numbers
TechCrunch
Aadhaar numbers aren't strictly secret but are treated similarly to Social Security numbers. Anyone of the 1.23 billion Indian citizens enrolled in ...

Aadhaar Leak: Jharkhand Government Reportedly Exposed Details of Thousands of Workers - NDTV


Latur man held for fake Aadhaar, PAN card racket
Times of India
Police have recovered 19 printed and 53 blank Aadhaar Cards, one PAN Card, computer, printer, scanner and software packages from the suspect.

Not using your Aadhaar card? It might get deactivated
NewsBytes
With so many government welfare schemes linked with Aadhaar, it is one of the most important documents you will ever hold. Also, a vital proof of ...

Goyal terms Jan Dhan-Aadhaar-Mobile (JAM), Direct Benefit Transfer as game changers
United News of India
New Delhi, Feb 1 (UNI) Union Finance Minister Piyush Goyal on Friday termed the Jan Dhan-Aadhaar-Mobile (JAM) and Direct Benefit Transfer as ...

One Lakh villages to go digital over next 5 years: Piyush Goyal - Business Standard

Digital India: Rs 5.6 Lakh Crore Transferred To Beneficiaries Via AadhaarEnabled Payment ...
Swarajya
The Modi government, in the last four years, has transferred a sum of Rs 5.6 lakh crore to the beneficiaries of National Rural Employment Guarantee ...

Budget 2019 may offer a monthly pension for informal workers above 60 withAadhaar
Business Insider India
It's election year and the Narendra Modi government may not leave any stone unturned to woo India's huge informal workforce that is faced with a job ...

Monthly pension plan for informal workers in offing - Hindustan Times

Samy Smart TV Based on Android TV Launched for Rs 4999, Requires AadhaarCard Before ...
TelecomTalk (blog)
Samy has made this TV available on their application, and to purchase it, users will their Aadhaar card. Last year, the Supreme Court ruled that private ...

Samy Launches 32-inch Smart TV at Rs 4999 - Pricebaba Daily (blog)

Man booked for doling out fake govt documents
Pune Mirror
... “Police constable Sham Shinde got a tip-off that Ippar was doling out fake Aadhaar and PAN cards among other government documents to people, ...

UPA subsidised non-poor, UBI will help Modi govt end this
Financial Express
While some part of this will no doubt be addressed by greater use of Aadhaar and Direct Benefits Transfer (DBT)—amazingly, just Rs20,170 crore of ...

Budget 2019 today needs forward-looking ideas
The Asian Age
Possibly this is what restrained then President Pranab Mukherjee from returning the Aadhaar (Targeted Delivery of Financial and Other Subsidies, ...

State Bank of India Leaves Millions of Customer Messages Exposed
TechBizWeb.com (press release) (blog)
In terms of risk to customers, this operational flaw should be seen in context with the Aadhaar breach (India's national identity database). Aadhaar is ...

Budget 2019: Govt announces mega pension scheme for unorganised sector, workers to get Rs ...
Moneycontrol.com
The money will be directly transferred to the bank accounts of the beneficiaries, possibly linked with Aadhaar. Moneycontrol News @moneycontrolcom.

The Investigator
The Hindu BusinessLine
Eventually, they will receive Aadhaar cards. But our first priority is to ensure that farmers do their duty. The programme has been carried out in phases.

Enough reasons why they hate Modi?
Daily Pioneer
By linking a new base (Aadhaar No.), one million poor disappeared in Maharashtra. More than 30 million (30,000,000) fake LPG connection holders ...

Farm loan waiver information now at the click of a button
Times of India
Farmers can now log on to http://clws.karnataka.gov.in/clws/pacs/citizenreport by entering Aadhaar or ration card number and check status of their ...

Three months after Titli strike, horticulturists yet to get aid
The New Indian Express
When contacted, horticulture officials said the account numbers submitted by some cyclone-hit farmers did not match with their Aadhaar and other ...

Temple Rose scam: Accused's wife, daughter arrested from Chennai
Pune Mirror
The senior police inspector Rauf Sheikh told Mirror, “We have seized bogus Aadhaar cards, debit cards and two air tickets. It was found that Sajnanis' ...

Major share of IT allocation goes to KFON
Times of India
The total outlay for the IT sector in the budget was Rs 574 crore. A major share of this went to Kerala State IT Infrastructure Limited (KSITL) for ...

Man found dead outside mohalla clinic
The Hindu
Though he didn't have an Aadhaar Card, which is required to get medicines from mohalla clinic, they gave him medicines on humanitarian grounds,” ...

(Closed) LIVE: Finance Minister Piyush Goyal presents interim Union Budget 2019
MediaNama.com
Jan Dhan-Aadhaar-Mobile and Direct Benefit Transfer have been game changers. In the last 5 years, 34 crore Jan Dhan bank accounts were opened, ...

Image of The Week, January, 28 — February, 1: TechCrunch, Coinlaw, Bitcoin Magazine and Others
https://bitnewstoday.com/
Aadhaar is a 12-digit number assigned to each Indian citizen as part of the country's national identity and biometric database. It allows users to open a ...
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