Aadhaar has been linked in so many places that there are countless unaccountable organizations and people who have copies of an Aadhaar. From couriers to schools and hospitals to cremation grounds. And of course government departments. As a result confidential details of individuals are constantly being put into public with little oversight and no control.
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/…
Recently the UK based company, Cambridge Analytica has been in the news for illegally harvesting user data from Facebook and enabling the use of this stolen data to influence the…
An Andhra Pradesh government maintained website has hosted a dashboard app that can search people in 13 districts using “religion” and “caste” amongst other categories. According to Huffingtonpost India, the…
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…
According to The Tribune, in a recent twist of events a private operator working at an Aadhaar counter at the District Administration Complex in Jalandhar was found to have saved…
Yavatmal: A group of youngsters, who had volunteered to desilt wells to allow their use as water sources in view of the extreme scarcity of drinking water, found thousands of…
Babubhai Boriwal (53) and Sampatlal Shah (61), owners of “Pandit Deendayal grahak bhandar” shops under Gujarat’s Annapurna Yojana PDS, were arrested by the Crime Branch in Surat. They were using…
In a response to an RTI, the UIDAI stated that 210 government websites had leaked Aadhaar data online. leaked data included name, address, other details and Aadhaar numbers for information of…
After the report by the Tribue that showed that access to Aadhaar data was being sold for Rs 500 on WhatsApp, India Today conducted its own sting operation. In it,…
A shocking report in The Tribune states that they purchased access to the complete Aadhaar database including all information provided by Aadhaar number holders to the UIDAI for a mere…