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Bihar- We don’t want aadhaar, we want our rights – Postcard campaign #BreakAadhaarChains

NAPM Workers send postcards protesting Aadhaar;  We don’t want Aadhaar, We want our rights. Patna, 17th January. Hundreds of workers who are a part of the National Alliance of People’s Movements sent postcards to the Supreme Court. These postcards, addressed… Continue Reading →

SC asks Can #Aadhaar be for All Purposes ?

Shyam Divan, Challengers’ advocate says the whole Aadhaar network was to be used for everything [email protected] New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday sought to know if the Aadhar scheme were to be declared legal can it be used for all… Continue Reading →

Chennai- Elderly woman dies after losing ₹90,000 to #Aadhaar fraud

  The 71-year-old victim shared her account details with caller who pretended to be a bank officer offering a new Aadhaar card; call traced to Uttarakhand A 71-year-old woman died of heart attack on Sunday two days after she lost… Continue Reading →

India – “Lets rechristen civil service as Indian Aadhaar Service,” says Nirupama Rao, ex-foreign secretary

Aadhaar Mess:    Hitting out at bureaucrats for using Aadhaar as new tool for harassment, Nirupama Menon Rao, former Foreign Secretary and India‘s Ambassador to the US, China and Sri Lanka (High Commissioner), has called for renaming Indian Administrative Service… Continue Reading →

Aadhaar- Why India’s Big Fix Is a Big Flub

By REETIKA KHERA, New York Times NEW DELHI — Aadhaar, India’s grand program to provide a unique 12-digit identification number to each of its 1.3 billion residents, appears to be collapsing under its own ambitions. When it was set up… Continue Reading →

Nandan Nilekani’s Lies on Aadhaar refuted #mustshare

by- Mathew Thomas An article, “We’re All In This Together”/– “Aadhaar isn’t building a surveillance dystopia, it asserts your individual identity vis-à-vis the state”, in the Times of India today is a tissue of lies timed (as some think) to… Continue Reading →

Karnataka: Aadhaar Project Director’s SIM Disabled Due To #Aadhaar Issues

Telecom Operator Deactivates UIDAI Project Director’s SIM For Not Linking It To Aadhaar Prabhakar alleged that five days ago, the telecom operator deactivated his SIM saying he had not linked the SIM card to his Aadhaar. OUTLOOK WEB BUREAU After… Continue Reading →

Aadhaar: from compiling a govt database to creating a surveillance society

The UIDAI project today has moved to a state where every agency is required to collect, keep and give to the State information pertaining to every person. Mobile phone companies and banks are the best known illustrations Usha Ramanathan A… Continue Reading →

“The Right to Privacy” -Warren and Brandeis

  Harvard Law Review. Vol. IV    December 15, 1890     No. 5 THE RIGHT TO PRIVACY[*] . “It could be done only on principles of private justice, moral fitness, and public convenience, which, when applied to a new subject,… Continue Reading →

India – Aadhaar’s Twin Existential Crisis #BreakAadhaarChains

    Reetika Khera The Aadhaar project deals a deadly blow to right to privacy and right to life.   It was deeply disappointing when the government of a democratic country argued before a nine-judge Supreme Court bench against the… Continue Reading →

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