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 Read more…
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 under construction. Keep checking for 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 Read more…
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 new cases every month on Read more…
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 Aadhaar, the Bench countered the Read more…
AHMEDABAD: In another instance of a fake Aadhaar creation racket, police here arrested three people who were making Aadhaar cards for people who did not have any identity documents, and were charging Rs 600 per Read more…
In two separate incidents , two aadhaar cards of the same person with different date of births were found to be submitted to the courts. The first incident concerns a habeas corpus petition being heard 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 Read more…
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 bank officer whose fingerprints got Read more…
The UIDAI has asked banks to provide Aadhaar-based onetime password (OTP) for opening of bank accounts only in the presence of the customer, in a banking outlet, The Hindu reports. In a letter addressed to Read more…