AADHAAR
Is UIDAI’s Aadhaar, the same thing that it claims to be? Here is a simple analysis of the UID project from Dr Anupam Saraph, who designed and implemented identity schemes for government and private organisations

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Moneylife Digital Team 01 October 2013
In a strange case of conflict of interests, Nandan Nilekani, the IT czar, is either heading or part of a committee or group that is turning the 'voluntary' UID number or Aadhaar of residents as mandatory for citizens to access several services and benefits from the government

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Will UID now be open to a debate on privacy and security issues?

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Moneylife Digital Team 27 September 2013
In yet another example of burdening bank customers, RBI has asked banks to deploy infrastructure at own cost for using UIDAI’s Aadhaar biometric authentication for KYC

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Manifestoes of political parties must make their stand clear on scrapping of Aadhaar and its biometric identification ahead of elections while state governments should withdraw from their MoUs with UIDAI following decision by the apex court

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Moneylife Digital Team 24 September 2013
After threatening citizens with exclusion from services and benefits if they have not enrolled for Aadhaar and getting slapped by the Supreme Court, the UPA government now plans to introduce NID Bill to give legal status to the numbering scheme

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Moneylife Digital Team 24 September 2013
According to the independent MP, brute force methods involving significant additional spending and increase in costs to consumers would not help financial inclusion and the government must relook at the RBI proposal on Aadhaar authenticated biometric ATMs

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Moneylife Digital Team 23 September 2013
The centre and state governments must not insist on Aadhaar from citizens before providing essential services, the apex court ruled

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After the initial fanfare and enthusiasm for introducing the Aadhaar identification, the interest has slowly died down. Why should this be so?

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Moneylife Digital Team 29 July 2013
As per the answer provided in the Lok Sabha by Rajiv Shukla, Aadhaar is not mandatory to avail subsidy for LPG cylinders, admission to private aided schools and opening a saving bank account

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Moneylife Digital Team 28 June 2013
The EPFO stated that its 5 crore members need not necessarily have Aadhaar numbers to avail the benefits of PF body's schemes as these are excluded from Centre's Direct Benefit Transfer programme

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Usha Ramanathan 30 April 2013
Those enrolling on the UID database have not been informed that their data is to yield profit for the UIDAI, Rs288.15 crore a year and its only investor, the government, does not even own the data. How many in the government are even aware of this investing of ownership in an entity that continues to remain deliberately undefined and opaque

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Usha Ramanathan 29 April 2013
As per the report of the TAG-UP Committee headed by Nandan Nilekani, government data and databases would be privatised through the creation of NIUs, which will then ‘own’ the data and the government would become a ‘customer’ to whoever controls the data!

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Moneylife Digital Team 23 April 2013
The data loss in transmission from Mumbai to Bengaluru is just one of the incidents highlighting potential threat of Aadhaar. By creating a lucrative database under UID, we are creating the wrong incentives for various interets—from hackers to enemy nations

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Moneylife Digital Team 18 April 2013
Security and legality of the UIDAI projects have been questioned

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Moneylife Digital Team 22 March 2013
While the UIDAI has maintained Aadhaar is voluntary, why then people are being threatened that they cannot access any services or benefits unless they enrol for the UID scheme, the PIL says

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Moneylife Digital Team 06 February 2013
After discovering that the UIDAI is organising enrolment camps only in 18 states, the provident fund body decided to withdraw its decision to make Aadhaar number mandatory for all EPFO members

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Moneylife Digital Team 29 January 2013
A retired major general is likely to be deprived of his pension just because he does not believe in enrolling for an UID or Aadhaar number. Is the government using threat of exclusion from authorized benefits and services, force enrolment of UID or Aadhaar scheme? If so, what happened to Aadhaar being voluntary?

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MDT/PTI 26 December 2012
While most districts in the first phase do not have verified digitised Aadhaar number database, some, which have this, are not linked to the bank accounts of beneficiaries which has become a major concern

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