This archive contains actual instances of misuse of Aadhaar for profit or those that put the integrity of the Aadhaar database into question.
ആധാര് കേസില് ഭരണഘടനാബെഞ്ച് രൂപീകരിക്കാതെ നവംബര് മാസവും കടന്നുപോയി. 851 ദിവസങ്ങള് പിന്നിടുന്നു, ഭരണഘടനാബെഞ്ച് രൂപീകരിക്കാന് സുപ്രീംകോടതി തീരുമാനിച്ചിട്ട്. 2 വര്ഷവും 3 മാസവും 21 ദിവസവും. അവസാനമായി ആധാര് കേസില് കോടതി വാദം കേട്ടു എന്ന് പറയാവുന്നത് 2015 ആഗസ്ത്…
March 2018: In yet another classic case of hacking the biometric authentication system, 27 people were arrested in what was described as “hi-tech cheating” by a senior official in the…
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,…
The UIDAI keeps insisting that Aadhaar is secure. Biometics can’t be bypassed, enrolment software can’t be hacked, and so on. So I put together a quick list. This list is…
Chandigarh: In yet another blow to the much touted Aadhaar eco-system, a recent case of a huge “scam” involving Aadhaar seeding of a large number of ration cards with unique identity (UID)…
3 people were arrested and three web cameras, one cooling pad, three laptops, three LCDs, a biometric machine, a finger-print scanner, 65 Aadhar cards, one PAN card, eight voter IDs,…
Aadhaar enrollment operators use a software provided by the UIDAI to collect or update information about individuals to be entered or updated into the Aadhaar database. This software is called…
Frequent warnings by banks and police are apparently not the solution to combating debit/credit card fraud. The Hindu reports that Cyber Cell officials in Kerala’s Kozhikode district are discovering three…
AHMEDABAD: In another instance of a fake Aadhaar creation racket, police here arrested three people who were making Aadhaar cards for people who did not have any identity documents, and…
In two separate incidents , two aadhaar cards of the same person with different date of births were found to be submitted to the courts. The first incident concerns a…