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 Rajasthan Police Constable Entrance Examination 2018. The accused said they learnt the art of making a thumb-print clone on youtube. 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…
This January, HRD Minister Prakash Javdekar had made a claim that 80,000 ghost lecturers had been found due to linking of Aadhaar. “So far only 85% teachers have given their Aadhaar numbers and we have found 80,000 cases in which lecturers were listed as employed with more than one institutes,” Read more…
The ministry of HRD recently made a claim that 80,000 “ghost teachers” were identified because of Aadhaar. HRD Minister Prakash Javdekar had made this stunning claim: “There are certain ‘ghost’ teachers who use proxy methods and are apparently teaching at multiple places as full-time employees. After the introduction of Aadhaar, Read more…