-The Indian Express That’s what the Aadhaar Act is. It was rightly categorised as a money bill and is wrongly expected to double up as a privacy statute With the billionth Aadhaar number being issued, the Aadhaar project is well on its way to becoming the centrepiece for governance in India irrespective of which government is in power. To that extent, critical engagement with the Aadhaar act is an essential exercise...
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Over 90% of adults on Aadhaar list -Mahendra Singh
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: The enrolment of 100 crore residents under the Aadhaar scheme will help the government address concerns that making the uid mandatory will eliminate the poor from government subsidies. With more than 90% of India's adult population enrolled, fears of exclusion have receded and alternative identities like voter IDs are not banned. "This will definitely help deserving people who really need subsidies and government help. Aadhaar will...
More »The Basis Of Privacy -Apar Gupta
-The Indian Express Aadhaar legislation points to the need for a comprehensive privacy law. Most of the debate on the Aadhaar bill has centred on the right to privacy. All five amendments suggested by the Rajya Sabha, subsequently rejected by the Lok Sabha, had an element of this right within them. But the core deficiency rested not in the lack of protections in the Aadhaar bill but in the absence of a...
More »Updating Aadhaar for better privacy -Rahul Tongia
-The Hindu Each authorised user of the system would get a longer number that is generated to be unique, but based on the base uid number. To its proponents, Unique Identification (uid, branded Aadhaar) is the solution to citizen empowerment. To its opponents, uid is a violation of not only citizen privacy but even citizen rights. In reality, like any programme or project, it can be anything we design it to be....
More »Rebooting the Aadhaar Debate -Reetika Khera
-TheWire.in We need to reboot the Aadhaar debate, starting on the right terms: why do we want to create a centralised biometric database of Indian residents? A recent article, ‘Identification simplified, myths busted’, by Piyush Peshwani and Bhuwan Joshi (hereafter, Peshwani & Joshi) makes some questionable claims about the uid project. Peshwani & Joshi’s strategy appears to be to ignore those questions to which they do not have an answer (e.g., that...
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