Union Minister of State for Home, Hansraj Ahir has said that the Center will look into sharing Aadhaar data with police for identifying first time offenders and dead bodies, reports PTI. He was speaking at the 19th All India Conference of Directors of Finger Prints Bureau in Hyderabad. Yesterday, PTI had Read more…
The NCRB Director, Ish Kumar has requested Hansraj Ahir, Union Minister of State for Home to provide access to Aadhaar data to the police, reports PTI. He was speaking at the 19th All India Conference of Directors of Finger Prints Bureau in Hyderabad Ahir also wants an "early intervention" by the Read more…
In what is a clear violation of a Supreme Court order that Aadhaar cannot be made mandatory for bank accounts till the case in the Supreme Court is concluded, the Finacle banking software used by banks requires Aadhaar in order to create bank accounts, reports Moneylife. The Supreme Court, in Read more…
Children spotted a bag with a lot of Aadhaar cards at a scrap dealer’s shop in Jaipur, and informed the local councillor, reports DNA. Upon investigating, it was found that an unidentified man had sold them to the scrap dealer (for the weight of the paper they were printed on!). Read more…
Chief Election Commissioner O P Rawat told reporters on the sidelines of the 14th National Conference of the Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) on the 7th that 32 crore Aadhaar numbers had been linked with Voter IDs. "So far, as many as 32 crore Aadhaar numbers have been linked to Read more…
The official Aadhaar enrolment software requires the Aadhaar operator to authenticate using iris scans as well as fingerprints. Huffington Post has reported an enrolment scam in Maharashtra, where Aadhaar enrolment officer, Mangesh Sitaram Bhalerao provided people who worked under him with rubber stamp copies of his thumbprint. These rubber stamp fingerprints Read more…
On August 24th 2017, WikiLeaks published secret documents from the ExpressLane project of the CIA pertaining to the cyber operations the OTS (Office of Technical Services), a branch within the CIA conducts against liaison services. The OTS provides a biometric collection system to liaison services around the world with the Read more…
A document from the UCO bank leaked on Twitter seems to be setting a target of 16 enrolments daily that must be met by the operators. @gautambhatia88 bank employees are being harassed in the name of Aadhar. There are daily targets in bank for Aadhar enrollment and Aadhar updation and Read more…
Cobrapost has today published the second part of Operation 136, a series of investigative sting operations on media houses willing to take money to promote Hindutva, target political opponents and drive communal hatred to polarize the electorate before elections. An anomalous addition to this series of stings was PayTM, which Read more…
We have a new Aadhaar FAIL! poster. It is all encrypted, therefore perfectly safe. Enjoy. As always, all our content is creative commons. Feel free to print it out and use as you wish, put it up on your websites, post it on your personal blog sidebars as a show Read more…