The Supreme Court in its 26 September 2018 judgement had clearly kept children out of the ambit of Aadhaar. However, the unified district information system for education (U-DISE) that works under the ministry of human resources development (HRD), says it will "move towards tracking each...

Despite the claims, media stories and myth created about help find missing person by matching fingerprints, the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI), admitted before the Bombay High Court that searching Aadhaar database using latent chance fingerprints is not technologically...

Digital security firm Gemalto, having retracted a study on Aadhaar data breaches has tendered an unconditional apology through half page advertisement in a leading newspaper. In this unusual advertisement addressed to the ‘People of India", it regrets the 'grave error' on its part while...

Google India, which had apologised in August for 'inadvertently coding' the helpline number of Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI), continues to insert the 1800-300-1947 helpline number in the contact list of the newly introduced mobile phones and operating systems...

The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) claims that it had enrolled over a billion residents for its Aadhaar number scheme. If you have an Aadhaar number, this translates to a constant threat of misuse of  biometric data and information on the Aadhaar card. But UIDAI suggests...