Jharkhand govt website exposes Aadhaar numbers of over 100,000 employees
5 years, 11 months ago

Jharkhand govt website exposes Aadhaar numbers of over 100,000 employees

Firstpost  

This is yet another case of government agencies using Aadhaar as a verification system, and not taking enough measures to secure the database online There is really no stopping irresponsible use of Aadhaar data. Employees using the Aadhaar biometric attendance system to mark their attendance, have their details exposed as the servers holding this information have been without a password since 2014. The details available, for anyone looking in the right place, include Aadhaar numbers, names, job titles, email IDs and partial phone numbers. This is yet another case of government agencies using Aadhaar as a verification system, and not taking enough measures to secure the database online.

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Jharkhand Govt Doctors Boycott Biometric Attendance System
4 months, 3 weeks ago

Jharkhand Govt Doctors Boycott Biometric Attendance System

News 18  

Jharkhand government doctors on Tuesday boycotted the biometric attendance system, terming it ”not feasible” for emergency services. The decision to boycott the biometric attendance system was taken during a joint meeting of the Jharkhand unit of the Indian Medical Association and Jharkhand Health Service Association on August 11 following a government order that says the system would be applicable to …

5 crore kids, teens in UP haven’t updated their Aadhaar biometrics
5 months ago

5 crore kids, teens in UP haven’t updated their Aadhaar biometrics

Hindustan Times  

LUCKNOW Over 5 crore children and teenagers in UP, which has a population of approximately 20 crore, have yet not updated their Aadhaar biometrics, including fingerprints and iris scans, as required by the Unique Identification Authority of India. As a result, many teenagers are facing problems while filling forms for competitive exams like National Eligibility cum Entrance Test and availing …

5 crore kids, teens in Uttar Pradesh haven’t updated their Aadhaar biometrics
5 months ago

5 crore kids, teens in Uttar Pradesh haven’t updated their Aadhaar biometrics

Hindustan Times  

Over 5 crore children and teenagers in UP, which has a population of over approximately 20 crore, have yet not updated their Aadhaar biometrics, including fingerprints and iris scans, as required by the Unique Identification Authority of India. As a result, many teenagers are facing problems while filling forms for competitive exams like National Eligibility cum Entrance Test and availing …

Special camps for 5 days to update Aadhaar biometrics in AP
1 year, 11 months ago

Special camps for 5 days to update Aadhaar biometrics in AP

Deccan Chronicle  

Vijayawada: The Andhra Pradesh government would organise special camps for five days from Thursday at village and ward secretariats to update the biometrics in the Aadhaar cards. Director of Gram Ward Secretariats department Sagili Shanmohan issued an advisory to district collectors, district in-charge officers of Gram Ward Secretariats and district education department about the special camps. During the special camp …

Special camps for 5 days to update Aadhaar biometrics in AP
1 year, 11 months ago

Special camps for 5 days to update Aadhaar biometrics in AP

Deccan Chronicle  

VIJAYAWADA: The Andhra Pradesh government would organise special camps for five days from Thursday at village and ward secretariats to update the biometrics in the Aadhaar cards. Director of Gram Ward Secretariats department Sagili Shanmohan issued an advisory to district collectors, district in-charge officers of Gram Ward Secretariats and district education department about the special camps. During the special camp …

Is Aadhaar for greater social good?
2 years 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 …

Attendance system based on Aadhaar
2 years, 3 months ago

Attendance system based on Aadhaar

Deccan Chronicle  

HYDERABAD: In an attempt to avoid manipulations and irregularities by employees in marking attendance, many organisations, especially central government offices and agencies are shifting to Aadhar enabled biometric attendance solution. Covid pandemic has thrown challenges in terms of attendance and access solutions and these devices support advanced connectivity options that make it appropriate for challenging outdoor applications, said Pankaj Vijay, …

No breach in Aadhaar data vault till now, must be cautious: Centre in Rajya Sabha
2 years, 5 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 …

\'Don\'t involve village/ward volunteers in Aadhar linkage with voter list exercise\'
2 years, 5 months ago

\'Don\'t involve village/ward volunteers in Aadhar linkage with voter list exercise\'

Deccan Chronicle  

Nellore: Village/ward volunteers will be kept away from a major initiative to link the voters with their Aadhaar numbers all over the state. Addressing the RDOs here on Thursday, Nellore collector Chakradhar Babu said they must accomplish the task along with the summary revision of photo electoral rolls as it helps delete double entries as also names of dead voters …

PM-Kisan website found leaking Aadhaar data of over 110 million Indian farmers
2 years, 7 months ago

PM-Kisan website found leaking Aadhaar data of over 110 million Indian farmers

India Today  

The website of PM-Kisan, short for Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi, was leaking the Aadhaar data of over 110 million farmers, a security researcher said. In his post on Medium, Atul Nair said that the dashboard feature of the PM-Kisan website has an endpoint that was exposing Aadhaar numbers of all the farmers based on region. Nair, a security researcher …

'Question Of National Security,' Nearly 100 Aadhaar-Related FIRs Brought To UIDAI's Notice: Report
2 years, 7 months ago

'Question Of National Security,' Nearly 100 Aadhaar-Related FIRs Brought To UIDAI's Notice: Report

ABP News  

New Delhi: While roughly a hundred police complaints relating to Aadhaar numbers were brought to the attention of the Unique Identification Authority of India between 2018 and 2021, a considerably greater number of incidents went unreported, according to authorities acquainted with the subject, HT reported. They include Aadhaar numbers being compromised, Pakistani citizens obtaining the unique numbers meant only for …

UIDAI takes note of close to 100 Aadhaar-related FIRs
2 years, 7 months ago

UIDAI takes note of close to 100 Aadhaar-related FIRs

Hindustan Times  

Although nearly a hundred police complaints related to Aadhaar numbers between 2018 and 2021 have been brought to the notice of the Unique Identification Authority of India by law enforcement agencies, a much larger number of cases remain unreported, according to officials familiar with the matter. The cases include Aadhaar numbers being compromised, Pakistani citizens acquiring the unique numbers meant …

Questioning the safety of Aadhaar
2 years, 7 months ago

Questioning the safety of Aadhaar

The Hindu  

The story so far: Two days after issuing an advisory asking people to refrain from sharing photocopies of their Aadhaar Card, the Unique Identification Development Authority of India opted to withdraw the notification. It stated that the action was to avert any possibility of ‘misinterpretation’ of the press release, asking people to exercise “normal prudence” in using/sharing their Aadhaar numbers. …

Beware! Govt warns against sharing Aadhaar details with hotels, cinema halls | Check advisory
2 years, 7 months ago

Beware! Govt warns against sharing Aadhaar details with hotels, cinema halls | Check advisory

India TV News  

Highlights UIDAI asked people to share their 'masked' Aadhar card details. The advisory specifically states that unlicensed private entities like hotels or film halls are not permitted to collect or keep copies of Aadhaar cards. The authority has suggested the use of masked Aadhaar which displays only the last 4 digits of the Aadhaar number that can be downloaded from …

Health authorities scramble to track airline passengers
3 years ago

Health authorities scramble to track airline passengers

Deccan Chronicle  

Vijayawada: The health authorities in Andhra Pradesh are facing a tough task to trace both the international/domestic travellers to keep informed about their health status. The health authorities have set up camps at the airports and are conducting RT-PCR tests on travellers based on symptoms and are asking for submission of a self-declaration form on their Covid status along with …

Specially abled woman gets Aadhaar card after 8 yrs as Jharkhand govt reaches her doorstep
3 years, 1 month ago

Specially abled woman gets Aadhaar card after 8 yrs as Jharkhand govt reaches her doorstep

Hindustan Times  

Physically challenged Bhekhraj Kumari is glad that the government came to her doorstep to provide her benefits of government schemes and Aadhaar card for which she was struggling for the last eight years. A resident of Jharpo village, in Tatijharia block of Hazaribagh, she was unable to receive the benefits of government schemes in the absence of the Aadhaar card. …

Probe if BJP used Aadhaar data for polls: HC to UIDAI
3 years, 9 months ago

Probe if BJP used Aadhaar data for polls: HC to UIDAI

Hindustan Times  

The Madras high court on Thursday directed the Unique Identification Authority of India to probe whether the Puducherry unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party used Aadhaar data to send bulk text messages for election campaigning. The court also said that the Election Commission of India should continue its examination on whether the model code of conduct was breached by the …

"Don't Pass The Buck, Look Into Allegations": Madras High Court To Election Commission On Plea Alleges BJP Targeting Voters Via Aadhaar Data
3 years, 9 months ago

"Don't Pass The Buck, Look Into Allegations": Madras High Court To Election Commission On Plea Alleges BJP Targeting Voters Via Aadhaar Data

Live Law  

In response to a Public Interest Litigation petition filed alleging that the Puducherry unit of Bharatiya Janata Party has misused Aadhaar details of voters for election campaigning purposes, the Madras High Court on Wednesday directed the Election Commission to look into the allegations immediately and with the degree of seriousness that it deserves. Significantly, the plea states that the petitioner …

Fraud Involving Aadhaar Numbers, SIM Cards Busted, 3 Held in Madhya Pradesh
4 years, 2 months ago

Fraud Involving Aadhaar Numbers, SIM Cards Busted, 3 Held in Madhya Pradesh

News 18  

Three persons were arrested for fraudulently using Aadhaar card details of villagers in Bargi in Madhya Pradesh's Jabalpur to activate 7,000 SIM cards which were then used by inter-state criminals to carry out cyber crimes, police said on Sunday. They got the Aadhaar numbers and other details from villagers by claiming it was part of a KYC drive for government …

The Possible Aadhaar-NPR-NRC Link : A Cause For Concern?
4 years, 10 months ago

The Possible Aadhaar-NPR-NRC Link : A Cause For Concern?

Live Law  

Background The question still remains on the basis on which the Hyderabad police determined that these 127 holders are suspicious. The IIH project is fully operational and can track intimate personal details of residents including intimate personal details of 43 million of the state's 50 million residents: GPS coordinates of their homes, the medicines they use, the food rations they …

Kerala links Aadhaar to attendance, salary for all govt officials
5 years, 8 months ago

Kerala links Aadhaar to attendance, salary for all govt officials

Live Mint  

Kerala’s Left Democratic Front government has made Aadhaar-based attendance mandatory for all government offices in the state, contradicting the stand of Left parties countrywide on the biometric identification project. All government offices are to install Aadhaar-based biometric attendance systems within six months, according to the 6 May order. “The Aadhaar-based biometric punching system should be set up in SPARK linked …

Stolen Aadhaar data may have been used to remove voters from electoral roll: Report
5 years, 8 months ago

Stolen Aadhaar data may have been used to remove voters from electoral roll: Report

Firstpost  

Latest investigation finds that stolen data was allegedly being used to try and remove voters from electoral rolls, Last week, IT Grids, a company hired by the Telugu Desam Party for developing its Seva Mitra app, was found to be allegedly storing data of 7.82 crore Indians from Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, and another 2 crores from Punjab. Now as …

IT Grids Aadhaar data leak: UIDAI’s implicit acknowledgement of a large-scale data breach will be very welcome to anti-Aadhaar activists
5 years, 9 months ago

IT Grids Aadhaar data leak: UIDAI’s implicit acknowledgement of a large-scale data breach will be very welcome to anti-Aadhaar activists

Firstpost  

The increased focus on social media and technology as an enabler for the current elections meant that it was only a matter of time before reports of misuse of data for political purposes arose. The current report of finding 7.8 crore Aadhaar data records with IT Grids Pvt Ltd, which were for use in the Seva Mitra app, however, are …

Aadhaar data leak: Details of 7.82 cr Indians from AP and Telangana found on IT Grids' database
5 years, 9 months ago

Aadhaar data leak: Details of 7.82 cr Indians from AP and Telangana found on IT Grids' database

Firstpost  

There have been around 30 FIRs that have been filed by the UIDAI since the introduction of the Aadhaar Act 2016. The Telangana State Forensic Science Laboratory discovered this during its examination of the data recovered by the Telangana police from the premises of IT Grids Pvt Ltd, on the suspicion of breach of voter ID and Aadhaar data according …

5 lakh still use Aadhaar for attendance in Telangana
6 years, 3 months ago

5 lakh still use Aadhaar for attendance in Telangana

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: The Supreme Court has barred Aadhaar-based authentication but about five lakh people are continuing to mark Aadhaar- based attendance in the state. The Telangana State Technological Services has implemented the Aadhaar-based attendance system in the offices of the state government and the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation, welfare hostels, schools and colleges among others. The Supreme Court has not definitively …

India's Biometric ID System Has Led To Starvation For Some Poor, Advocates Say
6 years, 3 months ago

India's Biometric ID System Has Led To Starvation For Some Poor, Advocates Say

NPR  

India's Biometric ID System Has Led To Starvation For Some Poor, Advocates Say Enlarge this image toggle caption Lauren Frayer/NPR Lauren Frayer/NPR India has 1.3 billion people, and no equivalent of the Social Security number. Sponsor Message The government says this system, called Aadhaar — "foundation" in Hindi — has helped to distribute welfare to the country's neediest; streamline the …

No aadhaar number on college marksheets from now, announces UGC
6 years, 4 months ago

No aadhaar number on college marksheets from now, announces UGC

India Today  

The University Grants Commission has directed universities not to print Aadhaar card number of students on their marks sheets or certificates. UGC notice on sharing Aadhaar information UGC Secretary Professor Rajnish Jain issued the circular for colleges, saying: "lt is for your kind information that printing of Aadhaar number on degree/certificate of a resident would be accessible to multiple people, …

People clueless as UIDAI helpline number enters their phonebooks
6 years, 5 months ago

People clueless as UIDAI helpline number enters their phonebooks

India TV News  

Thousands of smartphone users in India woke up puzzled on Friday with a Unique Identification Authority of India toll-free helpline number saved in their phonebooks by default. UIDAI, which is yet to issue an official statement on this, has replaced the earlier helpline number -- 1800-300-1947 -- with the new number -- 1947, which got into people's phonebooks without their …

UIDAI Contradicts Itself as It Calls RS Sharma’s Dare Uncalled For
6 years, 5 months ago

UIDAI Contradicts Itself as It Calls RS Sharma’s Dare Uncalled For

The Quint  

In the tweets posted on Tuesday evening, the UIDAI wrote, “In our regular media campaigns, we have been consistently making people aware not to display or publish or share their Aadhaar number in public domain. UIDAI had said the exact opposite thing just a few months ago, after an expose in March 2018 revealed that the Aadhaar number of several …

Aadhaar biometric data can't be tracked even if tried a billion times: IT minister
6 years, 6 months ago

Aadhaar biometric data can't be tracked even if tried a billion times: IT minister

Firstpost  

The Minister said that Aadhaar authorities conduct nearly one crore authentications every second. The biometric data of Aadhaar cannot be hacked even if someone tried a billion times, Union Minister for Information Technology Ravi Shankar Prasad said on 15 July, while calling the data storage system “completely safe and secure”. For a population of 130 crore, India is home to …

Aadhaar data can’t be used for criminal probes: UIDAI
6 years, 6 months ago

Aadhaar data can’t be used for criminal probes: UIDAI

Live Mint  

New Delhi: The Unique Identification Authority of India on Friday reiterated that biometric data collected by it cannot be used for any purpose other than generating Aadhaar and for authenticating the identity of Aadhaar holders. The clarification by UIDAI comes after the chief of the National Crime Records Bureau, Ish Kumar, on Thursday suggested that limited access to Aadhaar data …

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