AADHAAR RELATED ARTICLES: 14058 - Aadhaar Articles Dated 23rd February 2019

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 24, 2019

14058 - Aadhaar Articles Dated 23rd February 2019

EXCLUSIVE: Rafale, Aadhaar, loan waiver to corporates all fake issues, says FM Arun Jaitley
Times Now
New Delhi: Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley in an exclusive interview with Economic Times Executive Editor Bodhisatva Ganguli in the flagship ...

Loan waiver hits bogus Aadhaar, ration card roadblock
Deccan Herald
About 1.80 lakh farmers seeking waiver of crop loans have submitted bogus Aadhaar, ration card and land record details, authorities have discovered.

'Dissent on Aadhaar — Big Data Meets Big Brother' review: Rhetoric and ground reality
The Hindu
If there's one book one ought to read to understand the various ills of the Aadhaar project — on its flawed digital architecture, its impingement of basic ...

Identification crisis
THE WEEK
Officials in the Unique Identification Authority of India would be tired of insisting that the leak and loss ofAadhaar data collected by many government ...

What is mAadhar Application of UIDAI and How to get it in iOS devices?
ConsideringApple (press release) (blog)
The Unique Identification Authority of India has established an Aadhaar centric cellular program/application called mAadhaar for Android mobile ...

Tackling corruption: Banks to use algorithm to decide your loan application
Financial Express
“The country has nearly 1.25 billion bank accounts, it also has similar number of Aadhaar and mobile numbers, so this trinity of mobile number, ...

Personal details of nearly half a million Delhi citizens leaked online, claims security researcher
www.computing.co.uk
According to Diachenko, the database contained information about voter ID numbers and Aadhaar identity numbers of around half a million people.

India's Digi Yatra biometric flight boarding set to launch
Biometric Update
Smart Path integrates with government systems and databases for passenger authentication, making it appropriate for linking Digi Yatra to Aadhaar, ...

Haryana education minister admits delay in disbursal of scholarships to 3.45 lakh students
Times of India
Sharma said that scholarship is being linked to Aadhaar card so as to bring pace and transparency in the work. The education department is also ...

On YSRCP plaint, Election Commission of India team conducts random checks of electoral lists
The Hans India
The EC team instructed the Electoral Registration Officers (EROs) and BLOs to cross-check name and address of every voter with Aadhaar details.

DVAC sleuths catch corporation officials taking Rs 100 bribe
Times of India
The informer told DVAC that the officials were taking bribes to update data such as bank account details, smart card and Aadhaar card of beneficiaries ...

GHMC gets Digital India award
Telangana Today
... 2018 while implementation of Aadhaar based biometric attendance for sanitary workers and entomology workers helped the municipal corporation ...

Technology & innovation must for better medicare
The Hans India
But now due to this new innovation, they will have a soft copy of the reports and documents linked to their Aadhaar. When a patient visits the doctor, ...

Important rules about PAN card you must know
MENAFN.COM
Rules about other major financial payments, and linkage with Aadhaar ... is mandatory to link PAN withAadhaar, in order to legitimately file I-T returns.