Making Aadhaar Accessible: A Roadmap for Vulnerable Sections of India
6 years, 10 months ago

Making Aadhaar Accessible: A Roadmap for Vulnerable Sections of India

Deccan Chronicle  

The article discusses the challenges faced by vulnerable sections of society in obtaining and using Aadhaar cards, a biometric identification system in India. It highlights the need to make Aadhaar more user-friendly and inclusive to address the concerns of the poor, homeless, and senior citizens. The article proposes several interim solutions to provide relief to these vulnerable groups until a complete solution can be implemented. These solutions include upgrading the equipment used for data capture and transmission, providing free Aadhaar cards, and issuing Aadhaar smart cards with chips for senior citizens.

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Identity pangs: The Hindu Editorial on Aadhaar and concerns
1 year, 2 months ago

Identity pangs: The Hindu Editorial on Aadhaar and concerns

The Hindu  

In an innocuously titled report on “Decentralized Finance and Digital Assets” released last Saturday, global rating major Moody’s Investors Service has flagged some uncomfortable home truths about India’s ambitious digital identification programme for residents, Aadhaar. But at a broader level, the agency has red-flagged security and privacy risks from “centralised” digital ID systems such as Aadhaar, where a single entity …

Aadhaar is not perfect but has proven useful
1 year, 2 months ago

Aadhaar is not perfect but has proven useful

Live Mint  

Given how widely Aadhaar has been hailed as a success in biometric identification to enable policy action, the Moody’s critique of it caught many by surprise. It said the credit rating agency had made sweeping assertions against Aadhaar without citing any empirical evidence and had ignored facts about its identity verification options in suggesting that service failures were resulting in …

Aadhaar 2.0: Top Govt Officials, Experts to Brainstorm on Expanding Usage, Achieving International Standard
3 years, 1 month ago

Aadhaar 2.0: Top Govt Officials, Experts to Brainstorm on Expanding Usage, Achieving International Standard

News 18  

Top government officials and experts from India and abroad will brainstorm over three days in the coming week over how to improve and expand the use of Aadhaar in a digital economy and work towards developing Aadhaar as an “International Digital Identity Standard”. The three-day workshop titled ‘Aadhaar 2.0 – Ushering the Next Era of Digital Identity and Smart Governance’ …

Aadhaar as a hurdle: The Hindu Editorial on biometric authentication failures and welfare delivery
3 years, 9 months ago

Aadhaar as a hurdle: The Hindu Editorial on biometric authentication failures and welfare delivery

The Hindu  

The Supreme Court, on Wednesday, did the right thing by terming as serious the allegation by a petitioner that three crore ration cards were cancelled for not being linked with the Aadhaar database and that these were connected to reported starvation deaths in some States. Following the Court’s judgment in 2018, upholding the Aadhaar programme as a reasonable restriction on …

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