Fix Aadhaar defects now
2 years, 11 months ago

Fix Aadhaar defects now

Hindustan Times  

There are several “deficiencies” in how India’s national identity project, Aadhaar, is managed, according to a report tabled by the Comptroller and Auditor General of India in Parliament last week. Chief among these were instances of junk enrolment and low-quality biometric information, UIDAI’s inability to directly audit whether fingerprints and retina scans of citizens could be stored by third parties, the lapse in verifying whether an applicant has indeed resided in India for six months before enrolling, and a much-publicised project to give Aadhaar numbers to newborns that led to “avoidable expenditure of ₹310 crore”. First, as CAG noted, is the risk of privacy if authenticating agencies such as banks and telecom providers that commonly use Aadhaar for identity verification begin storing biometric data. Second, there are questions over the sanctity of the database, which already underpins several functions such as tax filing, pension distribution, and in the future could become a significant determinant of voting rights.

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ECI, govt to discuss Voter ID-Aadhaar linkage to address discrepancies in electoral roll
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1 week, 4 days ago

ECI, govt to discuss Voter ID-Aadhaar linkage to address discrepancies in electoral roll

Hindustan Times  

Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar will on Tuesday hold a “high level discussion” on the linking of Voter IDs with Aadhaar amid a clamour to weed out Elector Photo Identity Card related discrepancies in the electoral roll in India. The ECI in a submission to the Supreme Court, later stated that Aadhaar was not mandatory and that it was considering …

DC Edit | Ensure Citizens’ Data Protected
1 week, 6 days ago

DC Edit | Ensure Citizens’ Data Protected

Deccan Chronicle  

The decision of the Election Commission of India to discuss the possibility of linking elector photo identity card to Aadhaar number of all the voters with the Union government is to be welcomed as it forms part of the poll body’s efforts to make the election process foolproof. The need to come up with a better system to maintain the …

CEC calls top officials’ meeting over linking Aadhaar, voter ID
2 weeks ago

CEC calls top officials’ meeting over linking Aadhaar, voter ID

Hindustan Times  

New Delhi Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar has scheduled detailed discussions for March 18 with secretaries from the Union home ministry and the legislative department about linking Aadhaar identification numbers with voter ID cards, Election Commission of India officials said on Saturday. The legislation amended Section 23 of the Representation of the People Act 1950, empowering electoral registration officers to …

Security gaps in ICMR system as per Cert-In, reveals House panel report
2 weeks, 4 days ago

Security gaps in ICMR system as per Cert-In, reveals House panel report

Hindustan Times  

The Indian Council of Medical Research had multiple security gaps including insecure application design and inadequate security controls, the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team found after it received threat intelligence reports about the sale of personal data from ICMR in October 2023, the IT ministry had informed the parliamentary standing committee on communications and information technology in its Action Taken …

Big update on Aadhaar! Govt allows Aadhaar-enabled face authentication in private entities' mobile apps
1 month ago

Big update on Aadhaar! Govt allows Aadhaar-enabled face authentication in private entities' mobile apps

India TV News  

Big update on Aadhaar! Govt allows Aadhaar-enabled face authentication in private entities' mobile apps Latest update on Aadhaar! According to the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, the process will be facilitated as part of the standard operating procedure for Aadhaar authentication laid down through an Aadhaar Good Governance portal launched by the Ministry of Electronics and IT. Aadhaar Good …

Any Vulnerability In Aadhaar Database Can Lead To Misuse Of Personal & Financial Info, Strengthening Security Framework Need Of Hour: Orissa HC
1 month ago

Any Vulnerability In Aadhaar Database Can Lead To Misuse Of Personal & Financial Info, Strengthening Security Framework Need Of Hour: Orissa HC

Live Law  

The Orissa High Court has flagged the issue of misuse of Aadhaar details due to inadequate cybersecurity measures and has called for strengthening its security framework by implementing state-of-the-art encryption, multi-layered authentication protocols and stringent access controls. The Single Bench of Dr. Justice Sanjeeb Kumar Panigrahi made the observations while hearing a challenge made by Ex-Member of Parliament Tathagata Satapathy …

Private companies can use Aadhaar infrastructure for identity checks again
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Private companies can use Aadhaar infrastructure for identity checks again

Live Mint  

As the Aadhaar case was reaching the Supreme Court, the Unique Identity Authority of India began to restrict private access to its authentication infrastructure. A new amendment to Aadhaar authentication rules could finally allow us to leverage our identity infrastructure to better unlock greater efficiencies in digital services. In fact, it is Section 8 that deals with authentication, and since …

Private entities can now use Aadhaar authentication
1 month, 4 weeks ago

Private entities can now use Aadhaar authentication

Hindustan Times  

The Union government has amended the Aadhaar rules to allow private entities to use Aadhaar authentication for delivering their services, the ministry of electronics and IT said in a statement on Friday, adding the amendments seek to promote “ease of living” to residents and enable “better access to services” to them. Private entities can now use Aadhar authentication The ministry …

UIDAI notifies rules for private entities to perform Aadhaar authentication
1 month, 4 weeks ago

UIDAI notifies rules for private entities to perform Aadhaar authentication

The Hindu  

The Unique Identification Authority of India on Friday outlined a process for private entities to gain access to Aadhaar authentication: namely, the firms will have to refer their use case to a Union or State government Ministry or department, which will then have to refer the proposal to the UIDAI. “The Ministry or the Department of the Government of India …

Should voter ID be linked with Aadhaar to combat voter fraud? | The Hindu parley podcast
2 months, 3 weeks ago

Should voter ID be linked with Aadhaar to combat voter fraud? | The Hindu parley podcast

The Hindu  

On December 29, 2024, the Aam Aadmi Party and the Bharatiya Janata Party accused each other of manipulating the Delhi electoral rolls in an attempt to win the Delhi Assembly elections, scheduled to be held in February. While the AAP has accused the BJP of submitting applications to the Election Commission of India to get the names of voters removed …

Government mandates Aadhaar for disability IDs; activists say mechanism inaccurate
1 year, 5 months ago

Government mandates Aadhaar for disability IDs; activists say mechanism inaccurate

The Hindu  

Despite being pulled up by a House panel on the inability of the government’s UDID programme to accurately record the number of Persons with Disabilities in the country in real-time, the Union government has gone on to issue gazette notifications mandating each UDID applicant to either produce an Aadhaar card or show proof of having applied for one — irrespective …

Identity pangs: The Hindu Editorial on Aadhaar and concerns
1 year, 6 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, 6 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 …

Government rebuffs Moody’s Aadhaar views; says a billion Indians trust it
1 year, 6 months ago

Government rebuffs Moody’s Aadhaar views; says a billion Indians trust it

The Hindu  

The Electronics and IT Ministry late on September 25 took on a report from Moody’s Investors Service that raised questions about the efficacy of Aadhaar and asserted that there have been no breaches reported from the unique ID system’s database till date to dismiss concerns about security and privacy in a centralised system. In a note titled “Aadhaar, the most …

Govt rejects Moody's claim on Aadhaar's reliability in 'hot, humid' India
1 year, 6 months ago

Govt rejects Moody's claim on Aadhaar's reliability in 'hot, humid' India

India TV News  

Ministry of Electronics & IT in a press release on Monday refuted Moody’s Investors Service’s views questioning Aadhaar workability, calling them 'baseless' and without citing any evidence or basis. What was Moody’s Investors Service’s views" "However, the report incorrectly cites the number of Aadhaars issued as 1.2 billion, although the website prominently gives the updated numbers. The report avers that …

Supreme Court asks UIDAI, Manipur govt to ensure Aadhaar cards are provided to displaced persons
1 year, 6 months ago

Supreme Court asks UIDAI, Manipur govt to ensure Aadhaar cards are provided to displaced persons

India TV News  

Supreme Court asks UIDAI, Manipur govt to ensure Aadhaar cards are provided to displaced persons The Supreme Court gave direction to the authorities on issues related to Aadhaar cards in violence-hit Manipur. The Supreme Court on Monday directed the Unique Identification Authority of India and the Manipur government to address issues related to verification of Aadhaar cards expeditiously in the …

Secure Aadhaar data from misuse
1 year, 11 months ago

Secure Aadhaar data from misuse

Hindustan Times  

Last week, the government proposed to tweak rules regarding Aadhaar to allow entities other than the government for identity verification, a report in this newspaper noted. However, in 2019, the government tweaked the Aadhaar Act to allow some private companies — telecom providers and financial institutions — to seek Aadhaar voluntarily. The scale, and the associated problems of privacy and …

Is Aadhaar for greater social good?
2 years, 3 months ago

Is Aadhaar for greater social good?

The Hindu  

The passage of time does not seem to have removed the concern of people about the safety of Aadhaar data. It was more than six-seven years ago that cooking gas consumers in Tamil Nadu began seeding their Aadhaar and bank account details with their LPG consumer numbers for receiving the subsidy and the ration cardholders integrated the Aadhaar data of …

Supreme Court Of India Issues Notice On Plea Challenging Aadhaar-Voter ID Card Linkage
2 years, 4 months ago

Supreme Court Of India Issues Notice On Plea Challenging Aadhaar-Voter ID Card Linkage

Live Law  

The Supreme Court of India on Monday issued notice in a petition challenging the power of the Election Commission of India to use the Aadhaar database in the process of deletion and updation of entries in the electoral roll. 28 of the Representation of People's Act, 1950 and the Registration of Electors Rules, 2022 and two notifications regarding Aadhaar-Voter Card …

Karnataka High Court Permits NIA To Verify Documents Submitted By 12 Alleged Foreigners With UIDAI To Fraudulently Obtain Aadhar Cards
2 years, 7 months ago

Karnataka High Court Permits NIA To Verify Documents Submitted By 12 Alleged Foreigners With UIDAI To Fraudulently Obtain Aadhar Cards

Live Law  

The Karnataka High Court on Wednesday directed UIDAI to give access to the National Investigation Agency to the documents submitted by 12 alleged Bangladeshi nationals to obtain the Aadhaar Cards, so as to verify their genuineness. The NIA had approached the court challenging the notice dated 22-4-2021 issued by UIDAI, whereby the information sought for in respect of private respondents …

No breach in Aadhaar data vault till now, must be cautious: Centre in Rajya Sabha
2 years, 7 months ago

No breach in Aadhaar data vault till now, must be cautious: Centre in Rajya Sabha

Hindustan Times  

There has been no breach of Unique Identification Authority of India’s Aadhaar data vault, Union minister of electronics and information technology Ashwini Vaishnaw said in Rajya Sabha on Monday. Union minister Ashwini Vaishnaw was responding to questions raised by CPI MP Binoy Viswam on whether the Centre has considered the recent CAG report that questioned the encryption method and procedure …

Questions remain on the Aadhaar flip-flop
2 years, 9 months ago

Questions remain on the Aadhaar flip-flop

Hindustan Times  

Over the weekend, the government issued and withdrew an advisory cautioning people on sharing their full Aadhaar numbers in a hard copy with “unlicensed” organisations. Aadhaar cardholders, the second statement said, are “only advised to exercise normal prudence”. The likelihood of being asked for a photocopy of an Aadhaar — instead of being verified via an OTP or a fingerprint …

Supreme Court Directs UIDAI To Issue Aadhaar Cards To Sex Workers Without Insisting On Proof Of Residence
2 years, 10 months ago

Supreme Court Directs UIDAI To Issue Aadhaar Cards To Sex Workers Without Insisting On Proof Of Residence

Live Law  

The Supreme Court, on Thursday, directed Unique Identification Authority of India to issue Aadhaar Cards to sex workers on the basis of a proforma certification submitted by a Gazetted Officer at NACO or the Project Director of the State Aids Control Society. On an earlier occasion, Senior Advocate, Anand Grover, appearing on behalf of Durbar Mahila Samanwaya Committee had apprised …

'4.7 Lakh Aadhaar Cards Cancelled As Duplicate, No Assurance That Card Holders Are Indian Residents' : CAG's Audit Of UIDAI
2 years, 11 months ago

'4.7 Lakh Aadhaar Cards Cancelled As Duplicate, No Assurance That Card Holders Are Indian Residents' : CAG's Audit Of UIDAI

Live Law  

The country's top auditor, the Comptroller and Auditor General of India, has pulled up the Unique Identification Authority of India over a range of issues related to the issuance of Aadhaar cards.The issues flagged by the CAG raise a cloud over the authenticity and uniqueness of Aadhaar cards and lend credence to the the concerns being raised by data privacy …

CAG pulls up UIDAI over privacy gaps, duplication of cards: What are the complaints against Aadhaar?
2 years, 11 months ago

CAG pulls up UIDAI over privacy gaps, duplication of cards: What are the complaints against Aadhaar?

Firstpost  

The Comptroller and Auditor General of India has criticised the Unique Identification Authority of India for discrepancies in data management of Aadhaar The Comptroller and Auditor General of India has criticised the Unique Identification Authority of India for discrepancies in data management of Aadhaar. In its audit report on the functioning of the UIDAI, the CAG has criticised the authority …

Thinking before linking: On linking electoral rolls with Aadhaar
3 years, 3 months ago

Thinking before linking: On linking electoral rolls with Aadhaar

The Hindu  

An unwillingness to allow meaningful debate and invite wider consultation can undo even the progressive aspects of problematic legislation. On the face of it, the Bill’s objective — to purify the rolls and weed out bogus voters — may appear laudable, and the seeding of Aadhaar data with voter identity particulars may seem to be a good way of achieving …

The Aadhaar-voter ID link
3 years, 3 months ago

The Aadhaar-voter ID link

Hindustan Times  

Amendments to the election law to allow the interlinking of Aadhaar and the voter identity database were cleared by the Lok Sabha amid resistance from the Opposition. The idea to use the biometrics-based identity to clean up electoral rolls goes back more than five years, when the Election Commission carried out pilot projects to remove unverifiable entries in some states. …

Aadhaar-Linked Voter IDs Among New Electoral Reforms As Union Cabinet Clears Bill
3 years, 3 months ago

Aadhaar-Linked Voter IDs Among New Electoral Reforms As Union Cabinet Clears Bill

News 18  

The Union Cabinet on Wednesday approved a bill on electoral reforms, allowing linking of Aadhaar to voter ID cards – one of the key proposals pushed by the Election Commission of India. The had earlier written to the government pushing for several electoral reforms, including making paid news an offence and increasing the punishment for filing a false affidavit to …

Aadhaar 2.0: Top Govt Officials, Experts to Brainstorm on Expanding Usage, Achieving International Standard
3 years, 4 months 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 authentication fee slashed to enable entities leverage its infrastructure, says UIDAI CEO
3 years, 6 months ago

Aadhaar authentication fee slashed to enable entities leverage its infrastructure, says UIDAI CEO

Firstpost  

UIDAI has slashed the price for authentication by customers to Rs 3 from Rs 20 to ensure different agencies, entities be able to use the power of digital infrastructure, to provide people with ease of living with dignity, said Saurabh Garg New Delhi: Aadhaar custodian UIDAI has slashed the price for authentication by customers to Rs 3 from Rs 20 …

Delhi HC seeks UIDAI, Centre's response on issuance of new Aadhaar number to existing card holders
3 years, 8 months ago

Delhi HC seeks UIDAI, Centre's response on issuance of new Aadhaar number to existing card holders

Firstpost  

Justice Rekha Palli issued the notice on a petition filed by businessman Rajan Arora who claims that his personal details, including Aadhaar number, have been compromised New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Tuesday sought response from Centre and UIDAI on a petition seeking mechanism and procedure for issuance of new Aadhaar number to existing card holders. Justice Rekha Palli …

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

'Aadhaar Authentication for Good Governance Rules' Notified [Read Rules]
4 years, 7 months ago

'Aadhaar Authentication for Good Governance Rules' Notified [Read Rules]

Live Law  

Aadhaar Authentication for Good Governance Rules, 2020, have been notified today.These Rules have been framed invoking powers conferred by Section 53 and 53 Aadhaar Rules, 2020, have been notified today. Section provides that an entity may be allowed to perform authentication, if the Authority is satisfied that the requesting entity is— compliant with such standards of privacy and security as …

Aadhaar linking with Voter ID: Govt to soon give legal power to Election Commission
5 years, 1 month ago

Aadhaar linking with Voter ID: Govt to soon give legal power to Election Commission

India TV News  

The Election Commission might soon be eligible to link Aadhaar with the Voter Ids as the Central government is looking to amend the Aadhaar act to legally allow the election body to link both the ids. Before the election commission get any powers to do so, the government has to make an amendment in the Representation of the People Act, …

Government preparing law to link Aadhaar to Voter ID
5 years, 2 months ago

Government preparing law to link Aadhaar to Voter ID

India TV News  

Union Law Ministry has been working on a Cabinet note to prepare a new law after considering the Election Commission's proposal to give it statutory backing to collect the Aadhaar numbers of new applicants and existing voters to check multiple entries in the electoral rolls. "The Ministry is busy in preparing a Cabinet note considering Election Commission's proposal to tweak …

Aadhaar card: 93% people in Odisha have it
5 years, 4 months ago

Aadhaar card: 93% people in Odisha have it

Live Mint  

Odisha has made appreciable progress by achieving 93 per cent Aadhaar enrolment, Unique Identification Authority of India Deputy Director General G Venugopal Reddy said on Tuesday. According to an official statement, the issue was discussed at the state-level Unique Identification Implementation Committee meeting held under the chairmanship of Chief Secretary Asit Tripathy. According to the available data, out of the …

SC seeks govt’s response on use of Aadhaar as ID
5 years, 4 months ago

SC seeks govt’s response on use of Aadhaar as ID

Deccan Chronicle  

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday sought response from the Centre and the Unique Identification Authority of India on a PIL challenging the Aadhaar and Other Laws Act, 2019, that provides for voluntary use of Aadhaar as an identification document for opening of the bank accounts and for getting mobile connections. Section 57 of the Aadhaar Act which now …

Supreme Court seeks government reply to plea on Aadhaar data use by private firms
5 years, 4 months ago

Supreme Court seeks government reply to plea on Aadhaar data use by private firms

The Hindu  

A Bench of Chief Justice of India S.A. Bobde and B.R. Gavai of the Supreme Court on Friday asked the Union government and the Unique Identification Authority of India to respond to a petition alleging that recent amendments to the Aadhaar law opened the back door to private players to access citizens’ sensitive personal data. “The impugned Act creates a …

Aadhaar bill passed, Ordinance on its use not valid anymore: Centre tells High Court
5 years, 8 months ago

Aadhaar bill passed, Ordinance on its use not valid anymore: Centre tells High Court

India TV News  

The Centre on Tuesday said the Ordinance on the issue of voluntary use of Aadhaar biometric ID in the private sector did not survive, as the Parliament had already passed the amendment bill. President Ram Nath Kovind had in March given his assent to the Aadhaar Ordinance that allowed voluntary use of Aadhaar as ID proof for obtaining mobile SIM …

Passport Seva Kendras-like Aadhaar offices: Delhi, Vijayawada get UIDAI centres
5 years, 8 months ago

Passport Seva Kendras-like Aadhaar offices: Delhi, Vijayawada get UIDAI centres

Live Mint  

The UIDAI has operationalised the first 'Aadhaar Seva Kendra' in Delhi and Vijayawada, setting in motion an ambitious plan to set up 114 such centres by the year-end. The Unique Identification Authority of India is in the midst of setting up ‘Aadhaar Seva Kendras’ - similar to the concept of Passport Seva Kendras - covering 53 cities across India at …

Daily Bulletin: Narendra Modi meets Donald Trump in Osaka; Ravi Shankar Prasad to introduce Aadhaar-related bill in LS; day's top stories
5 years, 9 months ago

Daily Bulletin: Narendra Modi meets Donald Trump in Osaka; Ravi Shankar Prasad to introduce Aadhaar-related bill in LS; day's top stories

Firstpost  

Daily Bulletin: Modi holds bilateral talks with US President Donald Trump ahead of G20 summit opening;Amit Shah to introduce the amendment of Jammu and Kashmir Reservation Act, 2004, in LS today; day’s top stories Modi holds bilateral talks with US president Donald Trump ahead of G20 summit opening Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday held bilateral talks with US President …

Aadhaar just an ID, says Nandan Nilekani
5 years, 11 months ago

Aadhaar just an ID, says Nandan Nilekani

Live Mint  

Infosys co-founder and former Unique Identification Authority of India chairman Nandan Nilekani on Monday said Aadhaar did not qualify as a tool for surveillance and privacy and it was just an ID. ".Especially privacy is used in the market sense where a business is not too much about you and, therefore, you can commercialise it," Nilekani said during an interactive …

Has Aadhaar improved welfare delivery?
5 years, 11 months ago

Has Aadhaar improved welfare delivery?

Live Mint  

New Delhi: On Aadhaar.there is no vision, only political gimmick,” tweeted Narendra Modi in 2014, just a month before he became Prime Minister. Proponents argue that Aadhaar, by providing a unique identity and allowing biometric authentication, delivers the gains to actual beneficiaries, instead of fake or duplicates, thereby cutting leakages. This includes the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme …

Cabinet clears voluntary use of Aadhaar as identity proof
6 years, 1 month ago

Cabinet clears voluntary use of Aadhaar as identity proof

The Hindu  

The Union Cabinet, chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, on Thursday approved the promulgation of an Ordinance to allow voluntary submission of Aadhaar as identity proof for use by private entities such as banks, telcos and fintech firms. The amendment also provides for civil penalties for violations of Aadhaar Act and provisions by entities in the Aadhaar ecosystem. “Subsequent to …

Opinion | The Aadhaar amendment and private sector access
6 years, 2 months ago

Opinion | The Aadhaar amendment and private sector access

Live Mint  

In the most recent twist in the Aadhaar saga, the Lok Sabha passed the Aadhaar Amendment Bill last week. The bill is clearly the government’s attempt to facilitate the continued use of the Aadhaar infrastructure within the constraints laid down by the Supreme Court. The most strident criticisms of the amendment bill have, however, been reserved for the manner in …

Companies violating Aadhaar Act provisions may be fined up to Rs1 crore
6 years, 2 months ago

Companies violating Aadhaar Act provisions may be fined up to Rs1 crore

Live Mint  

New Delhi: The government has proposed a penalty of up to ₹ 1 crore on entities that violate the provisions of the Aadhaar Act, with an additional fine of up to ₹ 10 lakh per day in case of continuous non-compliance, sources said.Amid privacy concerns over Aadhaar, amendments have been planned in the Act, under which the government also proposes …

Aadhaar: Twists and turns in the biometric tale
6 years, 3 months ago

Aadhaar: Twists and turns in the biometric tale

Live Mint  

New Delhi: Aadhaar, India’s extraordinary attempt to give every citizen a biometric identity, is set for a massive revamp with new offline verification tools and non-intrusive ways for people seeking to voluntarily use the 12-digit unique number for new bank accounts and mobile connections. After twists and turns in 2018, led by the landmark Supreme Court ruling on the constitutional …

UIDAI may soon fine firms violating Aadhaar card norms
6 years, 3 months ago

UIDAI may soon fine firms violating Aadhaar card norms

Live Mint  

New Delhi: Aadhaar-issuing authority UIDAI is proposed to assume a regulatory role with enhanced power to take enforcement actions on misuse of the national biometric ID and impose stiff penalties for violations such as failure to obtain consent for authentication and in case of data breaches, a top source said. In the backdrop of the landmark Supreme Court verdict that …

Laws to be amended to let private firms use Aadhaar
6 years, 3 months ago

Laws to be amended to let private firms use Aadhaar

Live Mint  

New Delhi: The government has decided to amend the Telegraph Act and the Prevention of Money Laundering Act in order to allow private entities such as banks and telecom service providers access to Aadhaar as one of the “know your customer” methods. The cabinet also approved 10-year jail terms for those found guilty of data breach; use of quick response …

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