-The Indian Express The challenge to the Aadhaar project is, of course, much more than privacy. Much, much more. The three-judge bench of the Supreme Court hearing the cases challenging the UID/Aadhaar project has decided that there “appears to be certain amount of apparent unresolved contradiction in the law declared by this Court” in relation to privacy as a fundamental right. It worries the court that reading the 1954 judgment in MP Sharma’s...
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Right to privacy must be safeguarded -Jaswant Kaur
-The Tribune The Supreme Court may take time to decide upon existence or non-existence of the “right to privacy”. The Aadhaar project should not be scrapped.It should be implemented with safeguards to prevent the misuse of biometric data. The tussle over right to privacy is is still on in the Supreme Court of India. While the government has already completed 75 per cent of its work, debate on the existence of one...
More »Legal status, lack of coordination holding up Aadhaar and DBT -Ruhi Tewari
-The Indian Express The SC directive that Aadhaar can’t be made mandatory for any service — which the government can’t oppose until Aadhaar gets legal validity — has complicated the issue. On January 1, 2013, the Congress-led UPA government launched the Direct Benefits Transfer scheme, centred around the Aadhaar project begun a few years earlier. Teething troubles and implementation bottlenecks followed, the interest of the outgoing dispensation waned, and both Aadhaar...
More »No ID means no UID
It is difficult for a person to get aadhaar card/number if s/he does not have pre-existing proofs of identity and address. It has been revealed from a reply to RTI application that only 2.19 lakh aadhaar numbers have been issued to people who did not have any other prior identity proof, which is just 0.03% of total aadhaar numbers generated so far. The RTI reply dated 28 April, 2015 by the Unique...
More »Aadhaar and Brazil soothe French heartache -KM Rakesh
-The Telegraph Bangalore: Six years ago, a 16-year-old Revanna M had missed a chance to travel to France for football training because, as an orphan, he didn't have the documents to obtain a passport. Memories of that heartbreak returned to haunt him last summer when he was chosen by an NGO as one of six underprivileged youths to visit Brazil during the football World Cup. Again, a passport seemed elusive for Revanna,...
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