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Does Aadhaar Act infringe upon privacy? SC to hear plea tomorrow

Mathew Thomas has moved the top court challenging the constitutional validity of the Aadhaar Act claiming that it infringes upon the Right to Privacy

SC to hear plea challenging constitutional validity of Aadhaar Act today

The matter was mentioned before a Bench headed by Justice J Chelameswar

SC declines interim stay on linking Aadhaar with bank accounts, mobiles

Banks and telecom service providers should indicate last date of linking bank accounts, mobile numbers with Aadhaar, says SC

Deadline won't change: Mobile numbers need to be linked to Aadhaar by Feb 6

On February 6th, this year, the Supreme Court gave its order which mandated linking of Aadhaar number with mobile phone number

DoT outlines SIM re-verification process for NRIs, foreigners

The difficulties arose because this set of subscribers did not have Aadhaar and nor were they eligible to enrol for the 12-digital biometric identifier.

Now, Aadhaar-verified IRCTC users can book up to 12 rail tickets in a month

IRCTC officials said passengers can continue to book up to six tickets a month without validating their Aadhaar cards

India's 5-mn direct selling industry begins Aadhaar-based KYC to meet norms

Direct selling companies have stepped up their efforts to have KYC for all their independent representatives

False alarm! Wallet transactions dip just by 13% on Aadhaar-KYC regulations

RBI had mandated full KYC for all mobile wallet users while placing a limit of Rs 10,000 per wallet as the allowed transaction amount

Aadhaar-based attendance system for rail employees from January 31

Railway ministry also instructed that CCTV cameras be provided with the biometric machine

Over 39% PANs linked with Aadhaar

There are about 330 million PAN cards, while Aadhaar has been issued to about 1150 million people

Linking Aadhaar with insurance policies mandatory: Irdai

In a communication to all life and general insurance companies, Irdai said the rules have "statutory force" and as such they have to implement them without awaiting further instructions.

Irdai: Aadhaar, insurance link mandatory

The authority clarifies that linkage of Aadhaar to insurance policies is mandatory under the Prevention of Money-laundering

Irdai makes it mandatory to link Aadhaar with insurance policies

While the deadline hasn't been given, insurers say that it is most likely to be December 31

NRIs, PIOs not required to link bank accounts, PAN with Aadhaar: UIDAI

UIDAI said several representations had been received about problems faced by NRIs, PIOs and OCIs

Mandatory Aadhaar-bank account linking: SC rejects TMC MLA's plea

The apex court said there were several petitions challenging Aadhaar which were already pending before it and it cannot entertain thousands of pleas raising similar issue

Aadhaar convenient for opening bank accounts, says SBI chief Rajnish Kumar

"Everybody will have to honour the Supreme Court's judgement, but I believe from services point of view it (Aadhaar) is a great facility," Kumar said

Deadline extended to March 31: How to link Aadhaar to financial instruments

The Supreme Court on Friday extended all deadlines of Aadhaar linkages to March 31, 2018

Aadhaar data is fully safe, assures UIDAI

Responding to some media reports, which alleged that "210 Government sites made Aadhaar info public", the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) has said that the Aadhaar data is fully safe and secure, and there has never been a breach or data leak at the UIDAI.The UIDAI in a notification said that data on these mentioned websites was placed in a public domain as a measure of proactive disclosure under Right to Information (RTI) Act by government and institutional websites, which included the beneficiaries' name, address, bank account, and other details, which also included the Aadhaar number and were collected from the third party/users for various welfare schemes.It was this collected information that had been displayed in the public domain under the RTI Act.There was no breach or leakage of Aadhaar data from UIDAI database or server as has been aired by the said report, the authority clarified.UIDAI and Ministry of Electronics & IT has further directed the concerned ..

Waking up late: UIDAI has dumped CSCs, but it must plan the transition well

There have been several reports of Aadhaar details being available for measly sums of money and fictional characters being assigned Aadhaar numbers

Black money menace: Aadhaar-property linking to be mandatory soon?

Critics have long been saying that black money hoarders do not keep cash in hand, but rather invest in elsewhere, mainly real estate