In 2009, I became extremely concerned with the concept of Unique Identity for various reasons. Connected with many like minded highly educated people who were all concerned.
On 18th May 2010, I started this Blog to capture anything and everything I came across on the topic. This blog with its million hits is a testament to my concerns about loss of privacy and fear of the ID being misused and possible Criminal activities it could lead to.
In 2017 the Supreme Court of India gave its verdict after one of the longest hearings on any issue. I did my bit and appealed to the Supreme Court Judges too through an On Line Petition.
In 2019 the Aadhaar Legislation has been revised and passed by the two houses of the Parliament of India making it Legal. I am no Legal Eagle so my Opinion carries no weight except with people opposed to the very concept.
In 2019, this Blog now just captures on a Daily Basis list of Articles Published on anything to do with Aadhaar as obtained from Daily Google Searches and nothing more. Cannot burn the midnight candle any longer.
"In Matters of Conscience, the Law of Majority has no place"- Mahatma Gandhi
Ram Krishnaswamy
Sydney, Australia.

Aadhaar

The UIDAI has taken two successive governments in India and the entire world for a ride. It identifies nothing. It is not unique. The entire UID data has never been verified and audited. The UID cannot be used for governance, financial databases or anything. It’s use is the biggest threat to national security since independence. – Anupam Saraph 2018

When I opposed Aadhaar in 2010 , I was called a BJP stooge. In 2016 I am still opposing Aadhaar for the same reasons and I am told I am a Congress die hard. No one wants to see why I oppose Aadhaar as it is too difficult. Plus Aadhaar is FREE so why not get one ? Ram Krishnaswamy

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.-Mahatma Gandhi

In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.Mahatma Gandhi

“The invasion of privacy is of no consequence because privacy is not a fundamental right and has no meaning under Article 21. The right to privacy is not a guaranteed under the constitution, because privacy is not a fundamental right.” Article 21 of the Indian constitution refers to the right to life and liberty -Attorney General Mukul Rohatgi

“There is merit in the complaints. You are unwittingly allowing snooping, harassment and commercial exploitation. The information about an individual obtained by the UIDAI while issuing an Aadhaar card shall not be used for any other purpose, save as above, except as may be directed by a court for the purpose of criminal investigation.”-A three judge bench headed by Justice J Chelameswar said in an interim order.

Legal scholar Usha Ramanathan describes UID as an inverse of sunshine laws like the Right to Information. While the RTI makes the state transparent to the citizen, the UID does the inverse: it makes the citizen transparent to the state, she says.

Good idea gone bad
I have written earlier that UID/Aadhaar was a poorly designed, unreliable and expensive solution to the really good idea of providing national identification for over a billion Indians. My petition contends that UID in its current form violates the right to privacy of a citizen, guaranteed under Article 21 of the Constitution. This is because sensitive biometric and demographic information of citizens are with enrolment agencies, registrars and sub-registrars who have no legal liability for any misuse of this data. This petition has opened up the larger discussion on privacy rights for Indians. The current Article 21 interpretation by the Supreme Court was done decades ago, before the advent of internet and today’s technology and all the new privacy challenges that have arisen as a consequence.

Rajeev Chandrasekhar, MP Rajya Sabha

“What is Aadhaar? There is enormous confusion. That Aadhaar will identify people who are entitled for subsidy. No. Aadhaar doesn’t determine who is eligible and who isn’t,” Jairam Ramesh

But Aadhaar has been mythologised during the previous government by its creators into some technology super force that will transform governance in a miraculous manner. I even read an article recently that compared Aadhaar to some revolution and quoted a 1930s historian, Will Durant.Rajeev Chandrasekhar, Rajya Sabha MP

“I know you will say that it is not mandatory. But, it is compulsorily mandatorily voluntary,” Jairam Ramesh, Rajya Saba April 2017.

August 24, 2017: The nine-judge Constitution Bench rules that right to privacy is “intrinsic to life and liberty”and is inherently protected under the various fundamental freedoms enshrined under Part III of the Indian Constitution

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the World; indeed it's the only thing that ever has"

“Arguing that you don’t care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don’t care about free speech because you have nothing to say.” -Edward Snowden

In the Supreme Court, Meenakshi Arora, one of the senior counsel in the case, compared it to living under a general, perpetual, nation-wide criminal warrant.

Had never thought of it that way, but living in the Aadhaar universe is like living in a prison. All of us are treated like criminals with barely any rights or recourse and gatekeepers have absolute power on you and your life.

Announcing the launch of the # BreakAadhaarChainscampaign, culminating with events in multiple cities on 12th Jan. This is the last opportunity to make your voice heard before the Supreme Court hearings start on 17th Jan 2018. In collaboration with @no2uidand@rozi_roti.

UIDAI's security seems to be founded on four time tested pillars of security idiocy

1) Denial

2) Issue fiats and point finger

3) Shoot messenger

4) Bury head in sand.

God Save India

Monday, April 9, 2018

13240 - Aadhaar Articles Dated 9th April 2018



NDTV
Soon the residents won't need to give the aadhaar card number to the service providers. Instead they can get away with the sharing of virtual ID instead. The UIDAI (Unique Identification Authority Of India) tweeted on Sunday as to how one can create a virtual ID that can work in place of the 12-digit ...






Times of India
NEW DELHI: Enrollment of a woman under the Aadhaar scheme came handy as it helped a woman reunite with her family after she went missing over ... by police, she was sent to short-stay home 'Nirmal Chhaya' by a court which had directed the authorities to help her undergo Aadhaar registration.



The Better India
According to the Times of India, Maharashtra has become the first state in India to allow Aadhaar verification to register for a property. The initiative will give citizens the choice of linking Aadhaar cards instead of a witness to register for a property. The witness has to undergo the process of producing ID, ...






NDTV
Instead, Aadhaar holders can get away with the sharing of Virtual ID or VID. The UIDAI (Unique Identification Authority Of India) - the issuer of Aadhaar number as well as Aadhaar card - has explained on microblogging site Twitter as to how an Aadhaar holder can create a Virtual ID - also known as VID ...






Financial Express
Aadhaar will be a game-changer for the Indian digital space, which will develop at a fast pace in the coming years in a way that is different from the one in the US and China, Uday Kotak, executive vice-chairman and managing director of Kotak Mahindra Bank, said on Sunday. Speaking on the financial ...






The New Indian Express
In February, DGP (prisons) R Sreelekha had issued a circular, making it mandatory for visitors to submit their Aadhaar details while meeting prison inmates as well as link their Aadhaar number with their phone number if they wanted to contact the prisoners via telephone. The order was based on ...



Pune Mirror
Earlier, one witness along with the buyer would have to spend a day at the office. He/she was also required to get lot of documents. Highlights. Maharashtra becomes the first state to dole out the mandate which aims at timely procedures; The property buyers will be able to register their properties simply ...






The Asian Age
In the process of making her Aadhaar card, it was revealed that her biometric records preexisted in the Aadhaar database and the Delhi Police was able to obtain her details from the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI). The consistent efforts of court to reunite her with her family proved fruitful ...



Bar & Bench
The Delhi High Court last week directed the Income Tax Department to accept the income tax returns of lawyers Mukul Talwar and Vrinda Grover without asking for Aadhaar linkage, provided that they are duly filed before June 30. Talwar and Grover had filed a petition in the High Court through Advocate ...



The Telegraph India
Patna: Former chief minister Jitan Ram Manjhi on Sunday demanded that the government link Aadhaar with voter card to curb bogus voting. He was speaking at the Gareeb Mahasammelan organised by the Hindustani Awam Morcha Secular (HAMS), of which he is the national president, at Gandhi ...






eNewsroom
Union Minister of Law and Information Technology Ravi Shankar Prasad does not favour linking Aadhaar with voter ID card. He said so in Bengaluru on April 1. He, though, added that it was his personal view. Personal or official, this view makes little sense to the people at a time when the government is ...






The Tribune
Q. I am an NRI having residential HUF property at Chandigarh which I am planning to sell. 1. Can I give a letter of authority to my father to sell the property? 2. What would be the tax implications? 3. Can I get an Aadhaar card? — Dr Gurman Gill. A. (a) It would be advisable to execute a General Power of ...






Trak.in (blog)
Link IRCTC Account With Aadhaar, Win Rs 10,000 Reward! This special scheme of Rs 10,000 reward for linking Aadhaar with users' respective IRCTC account was actually announced in December last year. But now, because of low response (maybe?), IRCTC has once again pushed its promotion.



Free Press Journal
Indore: A conman posing as manager of Reserve Bank of India duped a person of Rs 40,000 in the name of linking Aadhaar with his bank account on Saturday. The victim lodged a complaint with MIG police when he received a SMS of money debit from his bank account. Nehru Nagar resident Ritik Jain ...






Dailyaddaa (press release)
New Delhi : A mentally unstable women, found abandoned on the roads of the national capital, was rescued by the police who obtained her bio-metric records from the Aadhar database and re-united her with her family. The 31-year-old woman was missing for over four months before she was found by ...






Netans News (blog)
It is to be noted that the VID will be a temporary number on top of your original Aadhaar number. You can give the VID to avail various benefits without exposing your original Aadhaar number. If you are concerned about the privacy of your Aadhaar number, you can generate VID.






National Herald
It has been iterated time and again by the UIDAI that none other than those working with the agency has any access to the Aadhaar database. However, Nandan Nilekani, in an 2010 interview to this writer, while he was the UIDAI chairman, had said, “The UIDAI will partner with agencies such as Central ...






Deccan Chronicle
New Delhi: Aadhaar registration has helped the police find the identity of a mentally-ill woman and unite her with the family after she went missing four months ago. The police had rescued the 31-year-old woman, found abandoned on Delhi roads, and she was later sent to the short-stay home 'Nirmal ...






The Hindu
Addressing concerns raised by MLAs during a discussion on pensions in the Assembly last week, the Social Welfare Minister said that in many cases the pensions were being transferred into the Aadhaar-linked accounts of the beneficiaries, and not in their accounts registered for the scheme. According ...






Hindustan Times
The SC had in December given a green signal for the Centre's scheme to set up 12 fast-track courts to exclusively prosecute and dispose criminal cases pending against the lawmakers within a year. The top court's Constitution Bench will continue to hear petitions against Aadhaar law. The SC had in the ...






Millennium Post
After the Delhi government decided to give ration to beneficiaries who had linked their Aadhaar card with the Public Distribution System (PDS), rural parts of the Capital witnessed many problems. Nearly 25 lakh people did not get ration, which forced the Delhi government to change the decision.






Livemint
Aadhaar has become a common KYC document. It is likely that the insurer would ask for Aadhaar at the time of disbursement of sum assured. You should ensure that the nominee's name is correctly reflected in the policy to avoid any issues at the time of claim. What does a lien mean in a terms of a life ...






The Sangai Express
Nonetheless, IOC officials advised him to re-submit his Aadhaar number. Accordingly he re-submitted his Aadhaar number after which he was issued one LPG refill on March 21 this year but still no subsidy reached his bank account, Sanatomba informed through his letter. He further appealed to all ...






The Indian Express
Agar hum jatiya aadhaar par nahi battey hotey toh kya Somnath ka mandir kabhi toot paata?…Magar toota humari kamiyo se, ekta ka abhaav, jaatiyo ke aadhaar par bataa hona…chhuachhut aur asprushyata ke aadhaar par bataa hona… jab tak ish Bharatiya samaj me chhuachhut aur asprushyata ...