The government has repeatedly claimed that Aadhaar linking to schemes lke PDS and MNREGA has created massive savings in welfare outlay by detecting fakes/ ghosts and duplicates….
Author: Vidyut
Vidyut is a commentator on socio-political issues with a keen understanding of tech and policy. She has been observing and commenting on Aadhaar since 2010 from a perspective of human rights, democracy and technological robustness.
A clipping from Gujarati newspaper Sandesh dated 9 January 2019 appears to report the murder of ex-MLA and former Gujarat BJP Vice President, Jayanti Bhanushali, on the…
Finance Minister, Arun Jaitley has written a flog on Aadhaar, which makes several statements that should cause concern to the citizens of India. They indicate not just…
While it is true that the Verdict on the Constitutional validity of Aadhaar reads down the Aadhaar Act in several key areas, the overall effect is one…
Title of article Source Location Date Fraud Online banking fraud racket busted – 4 including kingpin held Hindustan Times Delhi 25-05-2018 Banking Fraud Aadhaar-link con calls may…
Title of article Source Location Date Fraud How Aadhaar in Database Other Documents Fringe area tenants under cop scanner The Telegraph Palamu 23-09-2018 Property rent Forged NA…
Late Saturday night, security researcher Abhay Rana published a post detailing an XSS vulnerability on the UIDAI portal at resident.uidai.gov.in that allowed anyone to embed content on the…
So, we have yet another Aadhaar breach. Not the first, of course. The UIDAI response in each instance denies any security vulnerabilities, but falls short of disproving…
Yet another Aadhaar breach. Yet another UIDAI denial that misses the point entirely. There is yet another report of Aadhaar’s ECMP software being patched to bypass security…
Prof. Shamnad Basheer filed a writ petition in the High Court of Delhi with regard to the violations of privacy due to the leaks of Aadhaar numbers….