Tag: JAM Yojana

Fundamental conceptual concerns regarding the Aadhaar number as a unique identity based upon biometric digital data and the associated risks for citizens of India

Under the Aadhaar system, all Indian citizens are being allotted a unique twelve-digit identity number by the State upon obtaining biometric data including fingerprint and iris scans and upon submission and verification of certain demographic data including the name, date of birth and residential address. The new identity is different from all previous identity documents …

You want to be forgotten. But the State doesn’t want to forget you. #AadhaarFail

Attorney General on Aadhaar: “You want to be forgotten. But the State doesn’t want to forget you At today’s hearing on Aadhaar in the Supreme Court, the Attorney General Mukul Rohatgi responded to the arguments made by the petitioners. He claimed there were only two ways to challenge an enactment of Parliament – first whether …

Aadhaar’s “Compelled free consent” is a contradiction in terms.

Press release for Aadhaar – PAN linkage constitutional challenge hearing in the Supreme Court on Friday. Today’s arguments began with the idea of ‘informational self determination”. Informational self-determination was developed by the German Federal Constitutional Court which articulated it as: “the authority of the individual to decide himself, on the basis of the idea of …

Unlawful to make Aadhaar mandatory

Protest by NFIW and Right to Food Campaign against making Aadhaar mandatory for mid-day meal

Recently, I attempted a tweetstorm on why I think the 2016 Aadhaar Act does not override, or render useless, the orders passed in Oct 2015 by the Supreme Court. I argued that all of the recent notifications by various central government authorities making Aadhaar mandatory to avail the respective service of those authorities, are in …

Derrick Thomas raises important questions about misuse of Aadhaar by terrorists or illegal immigrants

This post has been based on a series of tweets by Derrick Thomas on Twitter. The first few tweets are embedded in the post. If you are on Twitter, please do go through the whole thread. The funny thing about Aadhaar based mobile verification is that it enables terrorists to get a legal mobile connection without …