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Who will catch the cop? by Sreelatha Menon

Last week, an enterprising resident welfare association in Ghaziabad organised a registration camp for unique identification (UID) numbers. It found people queuing up till midnight for a week with infants, grandmothers and some with domestic workers in tow. No one had a clue as to how UID was different from the several other identity documents each of them had been scrupulously accumulating and treasuring. They were initially informed that all they...

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1.55 lakh get Identity Cards under MNREGS

PERAMBALUR: About 1.55 lakh persons have registered under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme in the district and all of them have been issued with Identity Cards, said Collector Darez Ahmed here on Tuesday. Mr.Ahmed, who inspected various works taken up under the scheme in Veppanthattai panchayat union, said works worth Rs.56.64 crore would be executed under the MGNREGS in the district during the current financial year. The works...

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Cyber fears by V Venkatesan

Certain provisions in the rules notified under the IT Act cause concern about the security of sensitive personal information. ON April 11, the Union Ministry of Communications and Information Technology notified new rules under the Information Technology Act, 2000, to regulate the use of the Internet. This led to widespread apprehensions that the government and private persons might gain free access to sensitive personal information concerning Internet users. The government, however,...

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LIC to offer UIDs to 40 mn policyholders this year by Niladri Bhattacharya & Somasroy Chakraborty

To issue biometric cards to 50 million people every year for the next four years. Unique Identification Authority of India’s (UIDAI) plan to offer a unique identification number (UID) to every resident Indian is slated to get a fillip, with the country’s largest life insurer — Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) — saying it is ready to offer unique identification cards to its policyholders. About a year ago, LIC had signed...

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What the UID project will not do by Vishv Bandhu Gupta

The concept of “a ubiquitous magic plastic” that bring out the unique in a living person has caught the fascination of most of us. An unpopular government sees in it the ability of cutting a long red tape short to correctly identify the genuine citizens in need. The agonised cops of India see in it a great ally to apprehend the much-wanted terrorists, whose biometric data could now be verified...

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