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SC notice to Centre on Jairam Ramesh's plea on Aadhaar Bill

'Issue notice. As similar matters are listed on January 17, let this matter be listed on the same day,' the bench said

Irdai extends linking of Aadhaar, PAN to insurance policies by Mar 31, 2018

On November 8, the Irdai had directed the insurers to link Aadhaar and Pan Card numbers with insurance policies

No proposal to make Aadhaar mandatory for property transactions

The comments assume significance in the backdrop of Housing Minister Puri reportedly stating last month that seeding Aadhaar to property transactions was a great idea

Aadhaar helped achieve rightful targeting of Rs 17.5k-cr food subsidy: Govt

Bogus ration cards have been deleted and new cards issued to eligible beneficiaries under food law: Minister of State for Food and Consumer Affairs

Trinamool MPs protest Aadhaar linking with bank accounts

With placards in their hands, TMC Members of Parliament staged a protest in front of a statue of Mahatma Gandhi in the Parliament premises

Airtel to do Aadhaar-based eKYC for telecom subscribers, with riders: UIDAI

The authority will take a view on the issue after it receives a report from the RBI and the Telecom Department on January 10

UIDAI allows Airtel to do Aadhaar-based eKYC till Jan 10: Key facts

The UIDAI has not allowed Airtel Payment Bank Limited to use eKYC licence key and it shall remain deactivated until further notice

In Kerala, prisoners can now easily enroll for Aadhaar

Under the programme, authorities of each jail would prepare a periodical list of prisoners, who do not have Aadhaar number

Report says you can get Aadhaar details for Rs 500; UIDAI denies breach

A report claims to have bought access to a cheap software, which can be used to print the Aadhaar card of any individual

UIDAI says Aadhaar misuse traceable; govt to file FIR on alleged leak

UIDAI has refuted the claims of leak and termed it as an instance of misuse of grievance redressal search facility

UIDAI begins probe on breach of Aadhaar database, initiates FIR

UIDAI says Aadhaar not a secret number and biometric data was not leaked

Aadhaar's security flaws can have devastating consequences for Indians

Does UIDAI think citizens' privacy is a 'small price' to pay for how the govt can monetise Aadhaar in future?

Police registers FIR over Aadhaar data breach, names scribe

The police was informed by the UIDAI official that the correspondent of The Tribune, posing as a buyer, had purchased Aadhaar details

Aadhaar data breach: Committed to freedom of press, says law minister

The FIR, lodged with the cyber cell of the Crime Branch, invokes serious charges under the Indian Penal Code, IT Act and Aadhaar Act

Arrest authority, not journalists exposing Aadhaar breach, says Snowden

Ravi Shankar Prasad had said on Monday that the administration was 'fully committed to freedom of press' and that an FIR filed is 'against unknown'

There's an orchestrated campaign to malign Aadhaar: Nandan Nilekani

He was reacting to the filing of an FIR on The Tribune newspaper report relating to Aadhaar data breach

The truth about security: Here's why Aadhaar's greatest threat lies within

An individual's activities across multiple domains of service could potentially be tracked using their global Aadhaar IDs which are valid across these domains

No poor should be excluded from subsidies due to Aadhaar: R Chandrasekhar

Rajeev Chandrasekhar tells about representing Bengaluru, his views on Aadhaar, and issues that could dominate the assembly elections in Karnataka

Aadhaar's new security measures are good, it is still work in progress

While public pressure over the security of Aadhaar might have forced the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) to introduce new features such as face authentication, virtual ID and limited KYC, experts who have worked on the system say such updates are incremental and need to keep happening.Be it Google, Facebook or Aadhaar, a digital system serving billions of people needs to be remain secure for which it continually has to evolve, sometimes adapting to issues that are found. The three new features will certainly help improve security, but many questions still remain over how the UIDAI will tackle the recently highlighted issue of rogue Aadhaar agents. An article in the Tribune newspaper which claimed that Aadhaar information of individuals was on sale for as little as Rs 500, sparked off the biggest security scare against the digital identity keeper in a while. Even though the UIDAI asserted that its systems had not been breached, proof that Aadhaar details of an ...

Vulnerability of biometric data for Aadhaar is violation of rights: SC told

Justice D.Y. Chandrachud described the entire episode as "scary"