The technological aspects, methods and means of the Aadhaar Ecosystem including registration, authentication, deduplication, linking and delivery.
The Delhi High Court recently heard a Public Interest Litigation by Prof. Shamnad Basheer through which he has sought exemplary damages from the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI), for “negligence/ wilful recklessness”. The petition claims that such negligence has resulted in repeated compromising of the privacy of Aadhaar holders through Read more…
The Privacy Policy page on the UIDAI website claims to not use cookies. This is their section on use of cookies: Cookies A cookie is a piece of software code that an Internet website sends to your browser when you access information in that site. This site does not use Read more…
The Direct Benefit Transfer pilot for the Public Distribution system in Ranchi’s Nagri block in Jharkhand resulted in widespread exclusion and denial of food to some of the most needy in the state, as reported by the Right To Food Campaign in February this year. Aadhaar’s ghosts, that the government Read more…
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) numbers of those not entitled to subsidised ration has come to light in the Food, Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs Read more…
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, lamination machines and other equipment were confiscated during a raid in Pachchhaiya in Amroha. Acting on a tip off, Amroha Read more…
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 habeas corpus petition being heard by the Madhya Pradesh High court. The court came across two Aadhaar cards pertaining to Read more…
The UIDAI has asked banks to provide Aadhaar-based onetime password (OTP) for opening of bank accounts only in the presence of the customer, in a banking outlet, The Hindu reports. In a letter addressed to commercial banks, UIDAI Chief Executive Officer Dr. Ajay Bhushan Pandey essentially admits that OTP based Read more…
e-Sakal has reported that outages and failures with the main Aadhaar data server are causing problems with Aadhaar enrolment in Pune city and suburbs. Official enrolment centers with a limit of 20 tokens a day are seeing crowds and queues from dawn, well before they open. Even after getting tokens, Read more…
Manda Prathap Reddy of Hyderabad applied for an Aadhaar. His application was rejected because of a failure to capture his biometrics accurately. In the meanwhile, he was employed by an Aadhaar enrolment operator as he was in need of money. He worked there for half a month or so. Subsequently, Read more…
MUSSOORIE: All claims of a unique identity for each Indian seem to have crashed for a security guard’s family in Mussoorie when he learnt that his Aadhaar card had the same number as a junior government official. Because of the faux pas, the guard’s Aadhaar card has now ceased to Read more…