SUCHETA DALAL | A lot of people believe that Aadhaar is just like – or even better than — the Social Security Number system of US. This is a big myth Awidely-held misconception in India is that the US social security… Continue Reading →
Modi government makes Aadhaar number compulsory for budding entrepreneurs to register new business By Vikas Dhoot, ET Bureau | 20 Oct, 2015, 08.32AM IST NEW DELHI: Even though the Supreme Court has only allowed Aadhar to be used ‘voluntarily’ for… Continue Reading →
Christin Mathew Philip,TNN | Oct 14, 2015, 04.32 AM IST An RTI application has revealed that the UIDAI has identified more than 25,000 duplicate Aadhaar numbers. RELATED CHENNAI: At a time when the Centre is planning to link Aadhaar for government schemes… Continue Reading →
DR ANUPAM SARAPH | 12/10/2015 04:05 PM | The government claims that Aadhaar removes barriers to benefits, cleans duplicate and fraudulent beneficiaries and ensures benefits reach the beneficiaries. Are these claims justified? The purposes of Aadhaar were laid out in the Government’s Strategy Document …. Continue Reading →
When the constitutional validity of the Unique Identification Authority of India (Aadhaar) was challenged last year by a retired judge, Justice K.S. Puttaswamy and a host of other petitioners, the primary question before the Supreme Court was whether the collecting and storing of… Continue Reading →
Concerns over data security and privacy in the programme must be addressed. The Central Identities Data Repository, which is under the UIDAI, is a centralised database — that is, all demographic and biometric data is stored as one database. (Express… Continue Reading →
r (Edit: This essay is about whether Aadhaar can be linked to a governmental benefit scheme, and justified on the ground that beneficiaries make a free choice to give up their right to privacy in order to access benefits. The… Continue Reading →
Srinath Vudali,TNN | Oct 7, 2015, 12.03 AM IST HYDERABAD: Fraudsters are turning Prime Minister Narendra Modi‘s ‘Digital India’ campaign on its head to siphon off money from bank accounts of the general public. With the Union government advocating linking… Continue Reading →
SEPTEMBER 18, 2015 From inclusion to exclusion: poor and marginalised adversely affected by the UID project Today, a press conference was held to highlight the ongoing blatant violations of Supreme Court order in the Aadhaar case. Aruna Roy, a… Continue Reading →
Usha Ramanathan When the attorney general denied the existence of the fundamental right to privacy , to many, it represented an admission that the unique identification (UID) project, Aadhaar, does violate privacy . There’s technology in the project, but it… Continue Reading →
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