Page 18 - Aadhaar

Open court justice

Live streaming of apex court proceedings is a good first step

Aadhaar verdict: Can you sue UIDAI and its licensed entities for offence?

Legal experts say an amendment is required to empower citizens to file criminal complaints

Hunger in times of Aadhaar

Let a thousand "fake" beneficiaries steal from the system, than have a single Santoshi die, crying for bhat in her final moments - simply because her Aadhaar and ration card weren't linked

Prasad asks UIDAI for plan to restrict use of Aadhaar by private firms

Prasad held a meeting with IT secretary Ajay Kumar Sawhney and Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) CEO Ajay Bhushan Pandey to review status of Aadhaar use in light of the judgement

Financial companies in a fix over SC's Aadhaar order, suspend eKYC

Some firms have temporarily stopped eKYC as they await further instructions from UIDAI and respective regulators

If you earn below Rs 15k a month, you must link Aadhaar to your PF account

A government official said subscribers availing benefits of EPS will have to link their PF accounts with Aadhaar numbers

Taking legal views on voluntary use of Aadhaar: UIDAI's Ajay Bhushan Pandey

The SC judgment has clearly held that Aadhaar is constitutional and it does not tend to create a surveillance infrastructure, says UIDAI CEO

Letter to BS: You need something more than Aadhaar to bring 'achchhe din'

The argument that Aadhaar has become too big for the country's top court to not uphold its constitutional validity reflects poorly on Indian judiciary

Telcos to face enrolment hurdles as SC order stops Aadhaar-based eKYC

Mobile service providers and other private entities cannot ask for Aadhaar for customer registration

Privacy vs security: What is the brouhaha over Aadhaar all about?

What are the provisions that have been retained, struck down or read down by the SC verdict on Aadhaar, explains MJ Antony

Saaf niyat's Aadhaar shaken

Worse, even when the Court has placed significant limitations on Aadhaar, Modi Sarkar has not been stirred enough to apologise for its coercive approach

Aadhaar: What happens to firms like Jio, Paytm as SC strikes down sec 57?

Section 57 gave birth to e-KYC, which allowed companies like Reliance Jio to rapidly acquire new users. Will bringing in a new law allow pvt entities to regain access to Aadhaar?

Aadhaar remains valid but SC strikes down some sections to boost privacy

Though the court upheld the overall validity of the government's Unique Identification (UID) programme, it barred banks, insurance firms and mobile phone companies--from demanding Aadhaar data

Why Supreme Court feels welfare exclusion can't be used to scrap Aadhaar

"When it is serving much larger purpose by reaching hundreds of millions of deserving persons, it cannot be crucified on the unproven plea of exclusion of some."

Aadhaar: Govt should pass legislation on data sharing, privacy, say experts

Verdict builds on the "proportionality" doctrine enshrined in the previous court ruling on privacy, said experts

SC delivers a welcome judgment; Aadhaar cannot be an instrument of coercion

The Unique ID project was conceptualised as a strictly voluntary one. But over the years, telecom companies, banks, government welfare schemes had all started seeking Aadhaar for service provisioning

Aadhaar: The spirit of the dissent may outlast the verdict of the court

The SC's Aadhaar judgment is reminiscent of the judicial approval for denying fundamental rights during the emergency

Deleting Aadhaar data stored with private firms a Herculean task: Experts

With a lack of data-protection law in India, there is no entity to audit whether or not private companies are actually deleting personal data of customers

Aadhaar Act: Here's a primer on where you need to furnish your biometrics

SC has placed a number of restrictions on how who can demand Aadhaar and what services or schemes it can be used for

Congress to move court if Aadhaar amendments are brought as a Money Bill

Both the Congress, as well as the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), welcomed the verdict as a win for their respective visions of Aadhaar, and a loss for the other side