12664 - Aadhaar Articles Dated 10th January 2018

Economic Times

"Aadhaar faces a number of challenges over the short and long-term. The primary challenge is to protect the data from prying and excessive profit seeking excess of the business world. It is well-known that businesses are increasingly operating in a highly competitive world in which ethical boundaries ...

Economic Times

"The journalists exposing the #Aadhaar breach deserve an award, not an investigation. If the government were truly concerned for justice, they would be reforming the policies that destroyed the privacy of a billion Indians. Want to arrest those responsible? They are called @UIDAI," Snowden posted on ...

The Hindu

Andhra Pradesh Grameena Vikas Bank (APGVB) plans to set up 50 Aadhaar enrolment centres in Telangana and 26 in Andhra Pradesh to enable those not having Aadhaar card to enrol for it. The public can also use the centres for modifications in the existing Aadhaar card. A total of 148 officials (99 ...

Times Now

Aadhaar number, the 12-digit unique number issued by UIDAI or Unique Identification Authority of India could give away your bank name to anyone. ... that was rolled out to check whether bank account was linked to a particular Aadhaar number is giving away name of the bank without a prior check.

NDTV

"From notices in Parliament to questions in Question Hour and Mamata Banerjee's public declarations, the Trinamool Congress has exposed problems relate to Aadhaar. We won't stop. The All India Trinamool Congress have fought a war on Aadhaar beyond just tweeting about it -- early, consistent, ...

Business Standard

The benefits of Aadhaar, India's biometrics-based unique national identity system–the world's largest–are unclear and the impact of direct benefit transfers it will be used to deliver to the poor is not studied enough, a new study published by an arm of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has concluded.

Firstpost

New Delhi: Government has extended the deadline for linking of biometric identification Aadhaar to small savings schemes like post office deposits, Kisan Vikas Patra by three months to 31 March, 2018. "It has now been decided to extend the last date for submission of 'Aadhaar' number from 31 ...

Times Now

Amidst a nationwide debate over the security concerns surrounding the UIDAI-powered unique Aadhaar identity system, a recent media report has claimed that three official websites affiliated to the Gujarat government have been blatantly flouting the Aadhaar Act by disclosing the Aadhaar numbers of ...

Scroll.in

Last week, we learned from The Tribune that personal information collected as part of Aadhaar, India's unique identity project, is being sold by vendors through WhatsApp for as little as Rs 500. Although Aadhaar's holy of holies, its biometric database, has not yet been breached to the best of our ...

India Today

Security of Aadhaar data has been a subject of debate ever since the idea was floated under the UPA government. With the latest expose by a national daily showing that with rampant corruption unauthorised access of Aadhaar data is possible for as less as Rs 500, the fear is turning real one more time.

The Telegraph

Ranchi: A 24-year-old man who was selling fake Aadhaar cards for Rs 100 from an improvised workstation on wheels on the civil court premises here was arrested on Tuesday, exposing the vulnerability of the unique ID that is currently embroiled in a national debate over data leak. An FIR had not been ...

ThePrint

If your sarkar wants to keep track of you, it doesn't need Aadhaar. But the poor need it for their rights and that's why they aren't protesting. There are two aspects to the Aadhaar/The Tribune controversy. One is the thoughtlessly stupid FIR which names reporter Rachna Khaira and the newspaper, among ...