The official Aadhaar enrolment software requires the Aadhaar operator to authenticate using iris scans as well as fingerprints. Huffington Post has reported an enrolment scam in Maharashtra, where Aadhaar enrolment officer,…
The UIDAI keeps insisting that Aadhaar is secure. Biometics can’t be bypassed, enrolment software can’t be hacked, and so on. So I put together a quick list. This list is…
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…
The Supreme Court’s Constitution Bench grilled the government’s lawyers on Aadhaar’s potential to prevent bank fraud, reports The Economic Times. During the ongoing hearings to determine the Constitutional validity of…
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…
Airtel Payments Bank was found to be illegally creating accounts for users who authenticated their Aadhaars to link their mobile SIMs with their Aadhaar number. The newly created bank accounts…