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Edward Snowden Edward Snowden during the video conference on Saturday. From an undisclosed location, Edward Snowden came live amid gathering at media fest in Jaipur on Saturday. The US intelligence contractor turned whistleblower and freedom of press activist discussed on concern… Continue Reading →
JINOY JOSE P Title:New Dark Age: Technology and the End of the FutureAuthor:James Bridle Title:New Dark Age: Technology and the End of the FutureAuthor:James BridlePublisher:VersoPrice:$26.95 James Bridle on how complex technology darkens our life and culture, and the urgent need… Continue Reading →
A man’s retina is scanned as he enrolls in Aadhaar, India’s national identification system, in Kolkata, India. (Bikas Das/AP) By Reetika KheraAugust 9 at 1:45 PM Reetika Khera is a development economist. AHMEDABAD, India — Until recently, India’s national identification system,… Continue Reading →
By Pooja Chaudhuri – “Fake Aadhaar available…Ib [Inbox] for deal,” reads one of the posts on a Facebook group “Help for Friends – Advertising Deals” or as its over 7,000 members call it “HFF”. HFF is a secret group and does not… Continue Reading →
Aadhaar in time of data theft scare: While many activists advocate for UIDAI to be shut down to put an end to the debate, the call has had little success over the months. After TRAI chief’s dare, UIDAI warns people not… Continue Reading →
ANUPAM SARAPH In an India where every government document had to be attested by a gazetted officer, the pendulum has swung to the other extreme. TRAI chairman R. S. Sharma Instead of examining the harm caused to the country by… Continue Reading →
The poor are the guinea pigs for immature financial technologies Jean Drèze Vimla Devi is a poor widow who lives in Kodakel village of Khunti district in Jharkhand. In a short video circulated recently on Twitter, she explains how she… Continue Reading →
Somdev Sangwan This article is already kind of lengthy so let’s get straight to the point. Every eAadhar letter is locked with a password which is a fixed string of following schema: first_four_letters_of_name_in_uppercase + year_of_birth Basically there are 4 uppercase… Continue Reading →
UIDAI’s Aadhaar Helpline Number Is Getting Mysteriously Added To Your Contact List And Nobody Knows How The UIDAI recently changed its helpline number recently. (Representational) NEW DELHI: HIGHLIGHTS The new number has been pushed into people’s phone books On Twitter,… Continue Reading →
By- Shubha Mudgal Yet another Aadhaar story and this time it involves the Akhil Bharatiya Gandharva Mahavidyalaya Mandal or ABGMV, with its self-proclaimed mission of working “for the promotion and propagation of Indian Classical Music and Dances with its main… Continue Reading →