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Is India’s biometric benefits database trampling privacy? #UID

By Ram Mashru / 31 January, 2014 In 2009 India announced its grand universal biometric scheme “Aadhaar”. The scheme, managed by the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI), collects the fingerprints, iris scans and facial images of applicants in exchange… Continue Reading →

#India – The Aadhaar joke is on us #uid

Feb 05, 2014 Vivek Kaul The irony is that the Aadhaar form clearly states that ‘Aadhaar enrolment is free and voluntary’. If enrolment into Aadhaar is free and voluntary, how could the OMCs have insisted on Aadhaar linked bank accounts… Continue Reading →

UPA pleads with SC to save Rs 3,500 crore Aadhaar scheme #UID

By HARISH V NAIR PUBLISHED: 22:09 GMT, 29 January 2014 | UPDATED: 22:09 GMT, 29 January 2014 With just three months to go before the general elections, the UPA government is desperate to get its flagship Aadhaar scheme designed to bring benefits to the eligible… Continue Reading →

Three Aadhaar cards for seven-year-old boy in Kerala #WTFnews #UID

  DC | A boy gets his credentials recorded to get the Aadhaar card. (Image for representation) Kottayam: At a time when one-third of Keralites are yet to get Aadhaar, Abhishek Amrith, 7,  second standard student of St Antony’s LP school,… Continue Reading →

आधार कार्ड को बनाया शोषण का आधार #Aadhaar #UID

Updated on: Wed 08-Jan-2014 09:07:00 (GMT)   Kanpur: एलपीजी गैस एक बार फिर कानपुराइट्स के लिए समस्या बन गई है. इस बार मुसीबत का मजबूत आधार भी है. जी हां, देशवासियों की सहूलियएत के लिए बनाया जा रहा आधार कार्ड ही… Continue Reading →

#India – आधार की जरूरत क्या है #UID #Aadhaar

शुक्रवार, 3 जनवरी 2014 रीतिका खेड़ा   आधार नंबर यानी यूनिक आइडेंटिफिकेशन नंबर के महत्व को बढ़ा-चढ़ाकर बताने के लिए सुविधाजनक तथ्य सामने रखे गए हैं। जबकि कई राज्यों ने यूआईडी को लागू किए बिना ही सार्वजनिक वितरण प्रणाली (पीडीएस)… Continue Reading →

#India – The PM ’s Fingerprints: #Aadhaar and the garrotting of civil liberties #UID

SHYAM DIVAN | 30/12/2013 The Aadhaar project with its enormous potential of surveillance alters the relationship between citizen and state. It tilts the balance so steeply in favour of government that a citizen whose biometrics are controlled by the State… Continue Reading →

#UID – Nilekani Caught on Wrong Foot on Biometric Data #Aadhaar

By Express News Service – NEW DELHI : 27th December 2013  Contrary to Unique Identification Authority of India chairman Nandan Nilekani’s claim of the biometric system used for the the creation of Aadhar identity numbers being infallible, an RTI response related to… Continue Reading →

Aadhaar: HPCL, IOC and BPCL in contempt of Supreme Court order? #UID

     MONEYLIFE DIGITAL TEAM | 20/12/201   As per the Supreme Court’s interim order, no one can insist of Aadhaar for any government schemes like ration card, bank account, cash transfer, issue of LPG subsidies and if it is done, it is contempt of… Continue Reading →

Aadhaar: Oil cos, district administration may be sued #UID

  Mangalore, dec  19, The Hindu       GOVIND D. BELGAUMKAR       Consumers forum mulls filing PIL over LPG subsidy issue     The city-based Gas and Ration Consumers Forum is contemplating filing a public interest litigation… Continue Reading →

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