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FAQ on the Aadhaar Project and the Bill

Posted by Elonnai Hickok, Vanya Rakesh, and Vipul Kharbanda at Apr 13, 2016 07:55 AM | Permalink

Filed under: UID, Privacy, Internet Governance, Featured, Digital India, Aadhaar, Biometrics, Homepage

This FAQ attempts to address the key questions regarding the Aadhaar/UIDAI project and the Aadhaar (Targeted Delivery of Financial and Other Subsidies, Benefits and Services) Bill, 2016 (henceforth, Bill). This is neither a comprehensive list of questions, nor does it contain fully developed answers. We will continue to add questions to this list, and edit/expand the answers, based on our ongoing research. We will be grateful to receive your comments, criticisms, evidences, edits, suggestions for new answers, and any other responses. These can either be shared as comments in the document hosted on Google Drive, or via tweets sent to the information policy team at @CIS_InfoPolicy.

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Filed under: UID, Privacy, Internet Governance, Featured, Digital India, Aadhaar, Biometrics, Homepage

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