Aadhaar [Day 21 Session 2] All You Need To Know About UIDAI CEO’s PowerPoint Presentation Before SC [See PDF Of PPT]

To Convince The PowerPoint presentation delivered by UIDAI CEO Ajay Bhushan Pandey before the Supreme five-judge bench on Thursday commenced with him submitting that prior to the introduction of Aadhaar, there was ID proof admissible at the national level in India.“Each proof of ID had its own limitation. He indicated the various features of Aadhaar: Only numbers- no smart card Random 12 digit number- no intelligence or profiling Number once issued is never reissued The uniqueness of the identity ensured by biometric information Covers all residents, including transgenders and children; serves as proof of identity, address and relationship Strict data collection, quality verification and deduplication Enrolment and update possible from any part of India No conferment of citizenship or any right or entitlement No sharing of sensitive biometric and demographic information without the consent of the resident Online authentication In the course of the hearing, it was also claimed that the cost of one Aadhaar card is less than $1. Thereupon, the characteristics of the Aadhaar enrolment ecosystem were discussed: Decentralised enrolment Centralised Aadhaar generation Scalable architecture Standard software and processes Certified devices and manpower Traceability of all actors through audit trail 2048 bit data encryption “The strength of the whole universe will be needed to break such an encryption,” remarked Pandey. “The blacklisting was for charging money for enrolment or on account of poor data quality.some of them had even abused the measures meant for ‘biometric exception’.otherwise, the software used under the Aadhaar project is provided by the UIDAI and the hardware is also certified.,” responded Dr. Pandey, adding that some agencies had even enrolled inanimate objects or prima facie fictitious entities.