-The Telegraph New Delhi: The Supreme Court has stumped the Centre by wondering how it intends to issue aadhaar cards to innumerable homeless persons in the country in the absence of a residential identity. The court also wondered how the homeless could be given any national identity at all when they do not have any individual proof of residence. "A person who is homeless, how will you give an aadhaar card?" a bench...
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If No aadhaar, Does Person Not Exist For Government, Asks Supreme Court -A Vaidyanathan
-NDTV The Supreme Court court made the comments while hearing a case related not to aadhaar, but to night-shelters for homeless people across the country in the deepening winter chill New Delhi: To the questions swirling around the aadhaar or national identity cards, the Supreme Court today added a new one -- if a homeless person doesn't have it, will he not exist for the government? The court made the comments while...
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-The Telegraph New Delhi: The aadhaar issuer, which had lodged a police complaint against The Tribune newspaper and its reporter Rachna Khaira for a report on the sale of aadhaar data, appeared to backtrack on Monday after a tweet by its minister. On January 4, the newspaper had published a report saying racketeers were selling access to aadhaar data for Rs 500, which would enable buyers to open fake bank accounts or...
More »aadhaar open to attack from cyber criminals: RBI-backed paper
-The Hindu Bengaluru: aadhaar, an identity number issued to all Indians based on their biometric and demographic data, faces a potential threat from cyber criminals which can cripple the economy, according to a white paper done by the Institute for Development and Research in Banking, which is affiliated to the Reserve Bank of India. “Thanks to aadhaar, for the first time in the history of India, there is now a readily...
More »RS Prasad's intervention isn't enough: 4 more questions arising from Tribune's aadhaar story -Rohan Venkataramakrishnan
-Scroll.in Why did UIDAI ask for an FIR against the journalist if it respects press freedom? Telecom Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad tried to calm some nerves on Monday, following allegations that his government is attempting to gag the press from reporting on security vulnerabilities connected to aadhaar. Prasad posted a tweet saying the government is committed to a free press and asked the body that oversees aadhaar to get help from...
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