Source: huffingtonpost.in In the run-up to the Supreme Court judgement on the constitutional validity of Aadhaar, exactly a year ago, there had already been many news reports that outlined the many problems with Aadhaar, such as multiple starvation deaths, problems with biometric verification, Aadhaar cards being bought and sold, and a frightening number of data leaks from a huge number of government departments. However, the court still ruled on
Source – hindustantimes.com The Delhi High Court has agreed to hear a plea seeking damages from the operator of world’s largest biometric database for alleged failure to adopt adequate security measures that led to data leaks. A two-judge bench headed by Justice S Ravindra Bhat of Delhi High Court has asked the Unique Identification Authority of
Source – thehindu.com The Cambridge Analytica scandal and reports of alleged breach of the Aadhaar database have provoked a citizen advocacy group to launch a campaign to protect the privacy of individuals in India. A set of lawyers and policy analysts have put together a model Bill — the Indian Privacy Code, 2018, — with an
Source – indianexpress.com The Unique Identity Authority of India (UIDAI) — the nodal agency in charge of implementing Aadhaar — on Wednesday contended that there was no indignity associated with furnishing proof of identity to any institution or person, as it was only a “regulatory procedure.” Appearing for UIDAI, senior advocate Rakesh Dwivedi, said: “In a relational
Source – indianexpress.com The Supreme Court on Tuesday rebutted the Centre’s defense that collection of biometric details has not infringed the right to privacy of the citizens even if these were collected before the enactment of a law on Aadhaar in 2016. While the government referred to verdicts in two earlier cases relating to privacy and said
Source – indianexpress.com The Centre told the Supreme Court on Tuesday the Aadhaar Act was a “fair and reasonable” law and fulfilled the requirements laid down by the Constitution bench of the apex court in its landmark privacy judgment. Attorney General K K Venugopal told a five-judge Constitution bench headed by Chief Justice of India Dipak
Source – livemint.com New Delhi: The state is using Aadhaar as an “enabler of the citizens’ right to life including their right to food, livelihood, pension and other social assistance benefits”, the centre told the Supreme Court on Wednesday. In its opening argument in support of the 12-digit unique identification number, attorney general K.K. Venugopal said the
Source – indiatimes.com NEW DELHI: In a peculiar case, a human resources manager from Bengaluru on Thursday moved the Supreme Court seeking a direction to the UIDAI to hand him back the biometric data of his late father collected for Aadhaar card. Santosh Min B said he wanted the biometric details as these would be of
