AADHAAR
Usha Ramanathan 29 April 2013
As per the report of the TAG-UP Committee headed by Nandan Nilekani, government data and databases would be privatised through the creation of NIUs, which will then ‘own’ the data and the government would become a ‘customer’ to whoever controls the data!

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Moneylife Digital Team 23 April 2013
The data loss in transmission from Mumbai to Bengaluru is just one of the incidents highlighting potential threat of Aadhaar. By creating a lucrative database under UID, we are creating the wrong incentives for various interets—from hackers to enemy nations

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Moneylife Digital Team 18 April 2013
Security and legality of the UIDAI projects have been questioned

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Moneylife Digital Team 22 March 2013
While the UIDAI has maintained Aadhaar is voluntary, why then people are being threatened that they cannot access any services or benefits unless they enrol for the UID scheme, the PIL says

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Moneylife Digital Team 06 February 2013
After discovering that the UIDAI is organising enrolment camps only in 18 states, the provident fund body decided to withdraw its decision to make Aadhaar number mandatory for all EPFO members

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Moneylife Digital Team 29 January 2013
A retired major general is likely to be deprived of his pension just because he does not believe in enrolling for an UID or Aadhaar number. Is the government using threat of exclusion from authorized benefits and services, force enrolment of UID or Aadhaar scheme? If so, what happened to Aadhaar being voluntary?

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MDT/PTI 26 December 2012
While most districts in the first phase do not have verified digitised Aadhaar number database, some, which have this, are not linked to the bank accounts of beneficiaries which has become a major concern

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MDT/PTI 28 November 2012
The CPI(M) Politburo also objected to linking MNREGA wages to the Aadhaar number, saying experts have repeatedly pointed out that biometric identification for manual workers has a high 20% margin of error as fingerprints of such workers change

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Aurobindo Banerjee 28 November 2012
Aurobindo Banerjee, former chief commissioner of Income Tax, in this open letter to the UIDAI chief, highlights the issue of legal status of the Aadhaar number and its acceptance as valid proof by mobile operators

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MDT/PTI 23 November 2012
AEPS is the the payment system that will be used to support direct cash transfer for the government's welfare schemes

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MDT/PTI 14 August 2012
SEBI said, Aadhaar letter issued by UIDAI would be admissible as proof of address in addition to its presently being recognised as proof of identity

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Moneylife Digital Team 14 May 2012
Biometrics is not the only problem, the enrolment process and authentication systems are also emerging as serious issues with the UID or Aadhaar identification project. This is also forcing banks to search for other alternatives for payment authentication

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Moneylife Digital Team 09 May 2012
Cases of process non-compliance and fraudulent enrolment have been reported against few enrolment agencies in some places

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Moneylife Digital team 26 March 2012
Vakrangee Softwares is empanelled in the highest category of UID enrolments agency

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Moneylife Digital Team 13 December 2011
Viability of the Aadhaar project has not been found and there has been undue haste in proceeding with the matter: VS Achuthanandan

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Moneylife Digital Team 04 November 2011
The Nandan Nilekani-led UIDAI wanted to issue Aadhaar cards instead of the laminated letter mentioning the UID number. However, all of a sudden, it has cancelled its tender issued for printing of Aadhaar cards without giving any reason

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Aadhaar could be extremely dangerous to freedom and democracy itself, a reason why similar identity projects have been confined to the dustbin by many other democratic countries.
Ram Krishnaswamy Vickram Crishna 29 July 2010
Unique Identity Authority of India (UIDAI) will assign unique numbers to all people in India (‘Aadhaar’ is the brand name chosen by the for its flagship scheme), to serve as a single reference point to help establish identity. We found over 200 articles extolling the merits of the project and gathered them on the blog aadhararticles.blogspot.com. Rather than reassure, however, they raise several questions about the worth of the project. Ram Krishnaswamy & Vickram Crishna address thre

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While the UIDAI can try to address the issues surrounding privacy concerning the storage and access of data by resorting to latest technologies, none of these that are currently available are foolproof. This is the second and concluding part of a two-part series

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Two of the major issues concerning Aadhaar revolve around the benefits of having an identity and the risks of losing privacy. This is the first part of a two-part series

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