On August 24th 2017, WikiLeaks published secret documents from the ExpressLane project of the CIA pertaining to the cyber operations the OTS (Office of Technical Services), a branch within the CIA conducts against liaison services. The OTS provides a biometric collection system to liaison services around the world with the 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…
The Privacy Policy page on the UIDAI website claims to not use cookies. This is their section on use of cookies: Cookies A cookie is a piece of software code that an Internet website sends to your browser when you access information in that site. This site does not use Read more…
In October 2017, the RBI announced a high level task force that would study and help set up a transparent and comprehensive public credit registry (PCR). The RBI's PCR was intended to be "an extensive database of credit information for India that is accessible to all stakeholders". The PCR was intended to help improve efficiencies in the Indian credit market, aid financial inclusion, help control deliquencies and in general improve the ease of doing business. (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…