AADHAAR


Prashant Jha (Bar  and   Bench) 01 August 2024
The Delhi High Court recently held that in exceptional circumstances, the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) can be directed to disclose the Aadhaar information of a person to Court without granting him/her a prior hearing (Vandana v State through PS Amar Colony & Anr).   A...

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Over the years, the unique identification authority of India (UIDAI) and the Union government have been enforcing Aadhaar as a unique ID on every resident without even providing any solution to issues faced by common people. Without a proper and ‘leakproof’ solution, several residents are...

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A few days ago, I received a call from the local liquified petroleum gas (LPG) gas agency for KYC (know-your-customer). The agency sent a person with a mobile to do live eKYC with Aadhaar. When I asked about the need for Aadhaar eKYC, I was told it is as per the orders. Responding to my calls,...

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The Right to Information (RTI) Act is not only invoked for civic and social issues; more and more applications are being filed for information related to marital discord. For example, details of income tax returns and property tax of the estranged spouse are common and are often denied and now,...

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Dr Gopal Krishna 21 June 2024
                                                (When INDI alliance people oppose EVM, I am not seeing it as just an election, I believe that these people are people with the thinking of the last century at heart, they neither understand the importance of technology nor are they ready to...

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IANS 27 February 2024
The Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court has directed the state government to pay old age pension to those petitioners who do not have Aadhaar cards and mobile phones, after verifying their genuineness through bank records.   The order was passed by a division bench of chief...

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The refusal to provide information is getting so brazen that information officers at the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) claimed that no reports were available even when UIDAI publishes reports under different heads. It also turns out that information, when provided, raises...

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IANS 20 February 2024
A political slugfest has erupted in West Bengal over chief minister (CM) Mamata Banerjee’s allegation that the Union government is deliberately deactivating the Aaadhar cards of around 60 citizens of the state.   Referring to the complaints from 60 individuals from different parts of...

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Moneylife Digital Team 05 February 2024
Notwithstanding the 30 June 2023 deadline, as many as 114.8mn (million) holders of permanent account numbers (PANs) have not linked their PAN with Aadhaar. During the past seven months till 31 January 2024, the government collected Rs601.97 crore as a penalty from PAN-holders, the Lok Sabha...

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Dr Gopal Krishna 31 January 2024
“We kill people on the basis of metadata.”   -Unrepenting admission of Michael Hayden, former head of USA’s NSA and CIA, quoted in the Draft Resolution on Mass Surveillance, The Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights, Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe dated 18 March...

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Dr Gopal Krishna 19 January 2024
“The forthcoming census could be the first digital census in the history of India. For this monumental and milestone-marking task, I have allocated Rs3,768 crore in the year 2021-22.” - Nirmala Sitharaman, Union finance minister, 1 February 2021, Lok Sabha    “Census 2021 and the...

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Moneylife Digital Team 18 January 2024
In yet another clarification, the UIDAI (Unique Identification Authority of India) has asked all those concerned to delete the use of Aadhaar as proof of date of birth (DoB) from the list of acceptable documents. UIDAI says it observed that authentication user agencies (AUAs) and...

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IANS 31 October 2023
In a massive data breach, details of over 815mn (million) citizens with the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) are on sale on the dark web, which contains crucial information such as Aadhaar and passport details, along with names, phone numbers and addresses, according to the...

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IANS 16 October 2023
In the wake of multiple instances of online bank frauds through misuse of biometrics data in Aadhaar cards, a popular civil society forum here has appealed to Reserve Bank of India (RBI) governor Shaktikanta Das for the introduction of information security (IS) audit system for...

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Moneylife Digital Team 26 September 2023
Raising serious doubts about biometrics used in India's Aadhaar system, rating agency Moody's Investors Service says for people in hot and humid conditions, biometrics results in service denials. Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI), the agency that provides the 12-digit number,...

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IANS 21 September 2023
The Election Commission has told the Supreme Court that linking Aadhaar numbers with electoral rolls is not mandatory under the Registration of Electors (Amendment) Rules 2022.   A bench, headed by Chief Justice of India D.Y. Chandrachud and comprising Justices J.B. Pardiwala, and...

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Moneylife Digital Team 03 August 2023
The regional passport office in Mumbai issued a press note that makes DigiLocker mandatory if the applicant submits an Aadhaar as proof of residential address or date of birth.    "From 5 August 2023, in case applicants choose to submit Aadhaar as proof of present residential address...

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The Noida police have arrested three more suspects in connection with an alleged Rs15,000 crore GST (goods and services tax) scam, officials said. With this, the total number of arrests in the case has increased to 15.   The three individuals identified as Atul Gupta, Sumit Garg, and...

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Moneylife Digital Team 13 June 2023
The National Stock Exchange (NSE) has warned investors to stay away from five people Nasir Khan, Anuj Anil Shukla, Vikita Kishore Jain, Akshay N Pagariya and Mayank Shashikant Bhojane who are luring investors under the pretext of providing assured and guaranteed returns on investment in the...

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Moneylife Digital Team 16 May 2023
Calling the proliferation of fake Aadhaar cards and false Jan Dhan bank accounts a serious threat, EAS Sarma, former secretary to the government of India, has urged the comptroller and auditor general (CAG) to conduct a special audit of these fund transfers under the Centrally-sponsored...

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