Category UID
Chethan Kumar| TNN | HIGHLIGHTS Contracts signed with foreign firms by UIDAI show that they got “full access” to classified data This was revealed through an RTI application filed by Bengaluru-based Col Matthew Thomas BENGALURU: Contrary to the Centre’s claims, contracts signed… Continue Reading →
Why has our personal information been handed over to foreign companies with close links with the CIA, US Homeland Security and the French government? Usha Ramanathan This judgment now finally brings the challenge to the UID project back to centrestage,… Continue Reading →
UID ISN’T AN IDENTITY, BUT AN ‘IDENTIFICATION’ PROJECT’ By Satish Nandgaonkar, Mumbai Mirror | iNTERVIEW Dr Usha Ramanathan, Expert on Lawand Poverty Dr Usha Ramanathan, an independent law researcher and Aadhaar critic, says the project has become a tool of mass surveillance… Continue Reading →
Suhrith Parthasarathy In upholding privacy, the Supreme Court has squared up to some of its most regressive judgments When delivering the 12th Justice K.T. Desai Memorial Lecture on dissenting judgments in Mumbai last year, Justice Rohinton F. Nariman described the… Continue Reading →
Wait and watch. (EPA/Harish Tyagi) Devjyot Ghoshal On Feb. 15, Mukesh Ambani sat on stage at a leadership summit in Mumbai and declared: “To my mind, data is the new natural resource.” “Data in its raw form is useful, but for it… Continue Reading →
How CIA agents can access Aadhaar database via UIDAI certified company Cross Match. By Shelley Kasli – Today WikiLeaks published secret documents from the ExpressLane project of the CIA. These documents show one of the cyber operations the CIA conducts against liaison services… Continue Reading →
Also, the very idea of a boundless general purpose identification database is constitutionally suspect following the unequivocal declaration of privacy as a fundamental right, and the drawing up of the conditions of restricting that right in as narrow a manner… Continue Reading →
By EMN Dimapur, : The Konyak Union has on Thursday severely criticised making Aadhaar card mandatory and that it will not allow any ‘institution to make it mandatory under its jurisdiction’ stating that it should be voluntary since it infringes on an… Continue Reading →
Privacy concerns remains despite UIDAI claims that the Aadhaar project does not intrude upon the privacy of 1.1 billion Indians whose biometric and demographic information is stored on its servers Aman Sethi Hindustan Times, New Delhi Privacy rights advocates say… Continue Reading →
ET Bureau| Updated: Aug 24, 2017, 09.21 PM IST The immediate consequences would be that the government’s decision to mandate Aadhaar would have to be reviewed. Biju Janata Dal MP Tathagata Satpathy has been one of the very few who has carried… Continue Reading →