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Now, Aadhaar details displayed in Mizoram too
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Apr 27, 2017
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filed under:
Aadhaar,
Internet Governance,
Privacy
Contrary to the Centre’s assurances, government websites are revealing digital details of the poor, leaving them vulnerable to financial frauds and identity theft.
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Aadhaar: A widening net
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Apr 22, 2017
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filed under:
Biometrics,
Aadhaar,
Internet Governance,
Privacy
As India makes Aadhaar compulsory for a range of services, concerns about potential data breaches remain more than six years after the govt started building the world’s largest biometric identification system.
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News & Media
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11th Meeting of Information Systems Security Sectional Committee (LITD 17)
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Apr 19, 2017
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filed under:
Aadhaar,
Internet Governance,
Privacy
Udbhav Tiwari represented CIS at this meeting organized by the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) at Manak Bhavan, New Delhi on April 13, 2017.
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News & Media
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Opposition questions govt move to make Aadhaar must
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Apr 12, 2017
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filed under:
Aadhaar,
Internet Governance,
Privacy
Congress leader Jairam Ramesh claimed that the Aadhaar system was becoming an instrument of social exclusion rather than one of identity.
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News & Media
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Privacy in the Age of Big Data
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by
Amber Sinha
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published
Apr 11, 2017
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filed under:
Internet Governance,
Aadhaar,
Big Data,
Privacy
Personal data is freely accessible, shared and even sold, and those to whom this information belongs have little control over its flow.
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Blog
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India’s National ID Program May Be Turning The Country Into A Surveillance State
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Apr 07, 2017
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last modified
Apr 07, 2017 12:49 PM
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filed under:
Biometrics,
Aadhaar,
Internet Governance,
Privacy
For seven years, India’s government has been scanning the irises and fingerprints of its citizens into a massive database. The once voluntary program was intended to fix the country’s corrupt welfare schemes, but critics worry about its Orwellian overtones.
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News & Media
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Aadhaar marks a fundamental shift in citizen-state relations: From ‘We the People’ to ‘We the Government’
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by
Pranesh Prakash
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published
Apr 04, 2017
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filed under:
Biometrics,
Aadhaar,
Internet Governance,
Privacy
Your fingerprints, iris scans, details of where you shop. Compulsory Aadhaar means all this data is out there. And it’s still not clear who can view or use it.
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Blog
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Get an Aadhaar card if you don't have one
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Apr 04, 2017
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filed under:
Aadhaar,
Internet Governance,
Privacy
The Aadhaar number has been made compulsory for filing tax return. With both the government and private parties insisting on it for various activities despite the Supreme Court's assertion that is not mandatory, you need to get one at the earliest.
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News & Media
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The Aadhaar of all things
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Apr 03, 2017
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filed under:
Aadhaar,
Internet Governance,
Privacy
From a severely critical stand against Aadhaar in 2014, the Modi-led BJP in power has made a sharp U-turn to bulldoze its way into having every Indian scanned, tagged and labelled. A timeline of the country’s chequered date with the unique identification project.
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Internet Governance
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News & Media
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Digital native: You can check out, you can never leave
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by
Nishant Shah
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published
Apr 02, 2017
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last modified
May 05, 2017 01:31 AM
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filed under:
Researchers at Work,
Aadhaar,
Digital Natives
Aadhaar is not something you define and opt into, it is something that defines you.
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