Ghosts! The very term is evocative. Widely perceived as parasitical and feeding off the human body, the term generates the strong unconscious reaction of wanting to get rid off them. The hard part though is to convince people that ghosts exist because otherwise they would not be too willing to Read more…
India Post website appears to have added the option to de-link Aadhaar to their form for Aadhaar linking. This is actually a requirement for AUAs and KUAs according to the rules, which is being ignored in the push for linking Aadhaar with everything, as we pointed out in the post Read more…
In the latest addition to the ever-expanding Aadhaar ecosystem, Aurangabad-based Strides Software Solutions has launched the ‘d-health’ application, which is touted to be a unique donor engagement platform connecting the various stakeholders involved in blood donations. By centralizing donor registration, the app facilitates donor filtration, helping determine whether the donor Read more…
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…
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…
(Concern raised in this tweet by data security researcher Srinivas Kodali) In its Regional Conference on Child Marriage held in Bhubaneswar, Odisha, earlier this year, the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) brought out recommendations for implementation by various state governments "so that the menace of child marriage is curbed and Read more…
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 new cases every month on average. The victims are usually educated middle-class families or the elderly, and many are yet Read more…
There are seven questions we challenge UIDAI to give a proper answer for (and one bonus). What happens when stolen biometrics compromise a person's identity? Consider the example of the bank officer whose fingerprints got duplicated and sold to provide illegal access to create and update Aadhaar cards. There are Read more…
Is all tracking the same? Nope. You are being misled by propaganda (Mobile, Facebook, Google, Twitter - any one or all of them - shortened to MFGT for this article) FORMED IN COMPLIANCE with law Independent entities accountable to state Private bodies with no authority on citizens no matter how Read more…