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 of deep disappointment about the readiness of the Indian judiciary for the digital age. The judgment is rife with a lack of comprehension Read more…
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 wipe out your bank balance The Times of India Lucknow 13-05-2018 Phishing Scam Credit card fraud: 3 nabbed in Bengal Times of India Read more…
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…
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…
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…
(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…
CEO of UIDAI Mr. Ajay Bhushan Pandey while speaking to Nitin Sethi of Business Standard in 2016 said that consent of people enrolled with UIDAI was not required. This was said while speaking about how the efficacy of Aadhaar will be monitored and what challenges it faces as it reaches 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…