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

Saturday, November 2, 2019

14302- AAdhaar articles dated 1st Nov 2019


Beyond Aadhaar: India wants to create a giant centralized facial recognition database
Privacy News Online (blog)
Two years ago, Privacy News Online wrote about Aadhaar, India's billion-person biometric database, used to check identity, and its potential to ...

Pune: Aadhaar updates affected by arbitrary cap on applications
Times of India
Techie Sushant Kale has visited the Hinjewadi post office many times to update his wife's Aadhaar card, but his family has never been able to make it ...

Show Aadhaar to enter your home, plight of residents near OTA
The New Indian Express
CHENNAI: Even as validity of Aadhaar is being debated across the country, 15 families of ex-servicemen living in St Thomas Mount OTA in Chennai ...

Govt does not know what it spent to make one Aadhaar card: Activist
Yahoo India News
Mumbai: The government has spent crores of rupees on generating an Aadhaar-card based identification system, but has no idea how many cards ...

India- Government doesn't know what it spent to make one Aadhaar
MENAFN.COM
However, as it turns out, the administration is unaware of how much it spent in making a single Aadhaar card or how many of such IDs it has issued ...

SC to hear all HC pending cases on linking Aadhaar with social media
DFS Caller
span.p-content div[id^=”div-gpt”]{line-height:0;font-size:0}. The on Tuesday transferred to itself all cases related to linkage of profiles with Aadhaar ...

From cash transactions to property buying, you can use these two documents in place of PAN
Times Now
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman proposed various changes related to PAN card, Aadhaar, cash transaction and more during her Budget speech.

1000 fake I-cards seized in 6 months
The Tribune
The Kurukshetra Express Private Limited Company has seized more than 1,000 fake Aadhaar cards, driving licences and identity cards of various ...

How RBI's Ban On Direct Selling Agents For Loan Processes Impact Digital Lending Startups
Inc42 Media
As Sara Tumuluri, CEO of Khosla Labs explains, the RBI seems to be indicating that banks should either incorporate Aadhaar KYC (Offline or eKYC) ...

Things you can and cannot carry in trains
India Today
Train mishaps are quite frequent in both developed and developing countries. However, we often hear people in South Asian countries break the rules ...

AP Volunteer 2nd Notification 2019 Out! Know How To Apply Online For 19170 Vacancies
AglaSem News
Enter aadhaar number, captcha, and click send OTP. Immediately candidate receives OTP at the aadhaar linked mobile number. Enter that OTP and ...

UPI records 1.15 billion transactions in October
Entrackr
Meanwhile, the government's effort for strengthening financial inclusion through Aadhaar has started bearing fruit. Aadhaar-enabled payments system ...

PF pensioners asked to submit certificate
The Hindu
The pensioners must approach the branches of their pension disbursing banks with their pension payment order number, Aadhaar card, bank ...

Nagaland: News in brief
Morung Express
AAY & PHH beneficiaries under Dimapur informed on Aadhaar card ... to enable the Department for seeding their Aadhaar number in their respective ...

Modi govt plans a massive data bank to directly connect with 115 mn farmers
Business Standard
... that "besides the Agriculture Secretary, former IT Secretary J. Satyanarayana, the man behind implementation of Aadhaar card scheme, and several ...

Google, Walmart Help Drive India Payments Past 1 Billion Transactions
Yahoo Finance Australia (blog)
It simplifies transactions between apps and banks linked through a biometric ID system called Aadhaar. Regulated by the central bank, it allows the ...

Top headlines: Infosys battles whistleblower scandal, Chidambaram gets bail
DFS Caller
The Supreme Court all cases related to linkage of social media profiles with Aadhaar and pending before high courts. New rules to regulate hate ...

Israeli Spyware: Ask Not What Pegasus Does, But How Powerful Actors Operate in India
The Wire
But if past history is anything to go by, the committee's pending reports on Net Neutrality, Cambridge Analytica and Aadhaar tell us that their ...

Pune: Sedan driver targets car parked near e-way
Times of India
"Along with the two laptops worth Rs 58,000, the suspect also stole important documents, such as passport, Aadhaar card, PAN card and educational ...

Why Small Businesses That Employ 111 Million Fall Into Debt Trap
IndiaSpend
And only MSEs having Udyog Aadhaar Number (UAN), a unique identity number obtained after registration for Udyog Aadhaar Memorandum (UAM), ...

Delhi's 'Mini Tibet' Through The Eyes Of Pakistani Refugees Who Reside There
Youth Ki Awaaz
According to reports, Aadhaar and PAN cards were made accessible to them based on their current address, however, Indian citizenship continues to ...

Vijayawada RTA special counter to give licences to applicants on November 2
The New Indian Express
... G Konduru mandals before October 26 can collect their cards from the RTA office in Vijayawada by submitting a photocopy of their Aadhaar card.

India, Indonesia Lead Facebook's 9% Daily Users Growth
Inc42 Media
However, the biggest struggle for Facebook India right now is the WhatsApp traceability issue and the Aadhaar linkage to social media, both of which ...

Justice SA Bobde to be sworn in as CJI on November 18
Hindustan Times
... that ruled that no Indian citizen could be deprived of basic services and government subsidies because he or she didn't have an Aadhaar card.

Last call for telecom sector
Daily Pioneer
Add to this the 'Digital India' dream built on JAM (Jan Dhan, Aadhaar and Mobile) basic framework, which has started to translate into on-ground ...

#16 Oct: OYO Has No Plans To Go Public: Ritesh Agarwal
Inc42 Media
Supreme Court refuses to hear yet another pil on linking Aadhaar with social media. ➤ WhatsApp Payments launch might not happen this year over ...

E-Crop system introduced to help cotton farmers secure MSP in Srikakulam
The Hans India
In the e-crop system, farmers names, Aadhaar number, bank account, survey number of the land, extent of the land in which cotton is cultivating will be ...

[VIDEO] Miscreants vandalise toll plaza in Madhya Pradesh, manhandle staff
Times Now
According to Singh, the locals are exempted from the toll tax if they show their Aadhaar Card or Driving License to the staffers. On the day of the ...

Snooping Spyware on WhatsApp Can Get Full Access to Phones: Expert
The Quint
... Gupta said that in 2017, the SC reaffirmed the fundamental right to privacy, which was further substantiated in the Aadhaar ruling by making judicial ...

WATCH: CJI-Designate Justice Bobde Asked On Ayodhya Case & More
Republic World
Justice Bobde has also been a part of several landmark judgments from the Supreme Court including the verdict on the validity of Aadhaar. He will ...
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