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(Updated) Information Security Practices of Aadhaar (or lack thereof): A documentation of public availability of Aadhaar Numbers with sensitive personal financial information
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by
Amber Sinha and Srinivas Kodali
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published
May 01, 2017
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last modified
Mar 13, 2019 12:29 AM
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filed under:
Digital ID,
Privacy,
NDSAP,
Data Protection,
Accountability,
Featured,
Data Governance,
Aadhaar,
Digitisation,
Homepage,
Internet Governance,
Data Management
Since its inception in 2009, the Aadhaar project has been shrouded in controversy due to various questions raised about privacy, technological issues, welfare exclusion, and security concerns. In this study, we document numerous instances of publicly available Aadhaar Numbers along with other personally identifiable information (PII) of individuals on government websites. This report highlights four government projects run by various government departments that have made sensitive personal financial information and Aadhaar numbers public on the project websites.
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Announcement of a Three-Region Research Alliance on the Appropriate Use of Digital Identity
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by
Amber Sinha
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published
May 13, 2019
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last modified
May 13, 2019 09:06 AM
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filed under:
Digital ID,
Internet Governance,
Appropriate Use of Digital ID,
Featured,
Digital Identity,
Homepage
Omidyar Network has recently announced its decision to invest in establishment of a three-region research alliance — to be co-led by the Institute for Technology & Society (ITS), Brazil, the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Technology Law (CIPIT) , Kenya, and the CIS, India — on the Appropriate Use of Digital Identity. As part of this Alliance, we at the CIS will look at the policy objectives of digital identity projects, how technological policy choices can be thought through to meet the objectives, and how legitimate uses of a digital identity framework may be evaluated.
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Comments on the Report of the Committee on Digital Payments (December 2016)
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by
Sumandro Chattapadhyay and Amber Sinha
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published
Jan 12, 2017
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last modified
Jan 12, 2017 12:32 PM
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filed under:
UID,
Digital ID,
Big Data,
Digital Economy,
Digital Access,
Privacy,
Digital Security,
Data Revolution,
Digital Payment,
Internet Governance,
Digital India,
Data Protection,
Demonetisation,
Homepage,
Featured,
Aadhaar
The Committee on Digital Payments constituted by the Ministry of Finance and chaired by Ratan P. Watal, Principal Advisor, NITI Aayog, submitted its report on the "Medium Term Recommendations to Strengthen Digital Payments Ecosystem" on December 09, 2016. The report was made public on December 27, and comments were sought from the general public. Here are the comments submitted by the Centre for Internet and Society.
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Comments to the ID4D Practitioners’ Guide
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by
Yesha Tshering Paul, Prakriti Singh, and Amber Sinha
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published
Aug 08, 2019
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last modified
Aug 08, 2019 10:25 AM
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filed under:
Digital ID,
Privacy,
Internet Governance,
Appropriate Use of Digital ID,
Digital Identity
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Core Concepts and Processes
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by
Shruti Trikanand and Amber Sinha
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published
Sep 13, 2019
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last modified
Oct 17, 2019 04:06 PM
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filed under:
Internet Governance,
Digital ID,
Digital Identity
When we embarked on this research project, we began with the primary questions of what constitutes a digital identity system. In the last few years, with the rise in national digital identity projects, there has been significant academic and media attention to the idea, benefits and risks of a digital identity system.
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Digital IDs
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Design and Uses of Digital Identities - Research Plan
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by
Amber Sinha and Pooja Saxena
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published
Aug 08, 2019
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last modified
Aug 17, 2019 07:58 AM
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filed under:
Digital ID,
Privacy,
Internet Governance,
Appropriate Use of Digital ID,
Digital Identity
In our research project about uses and design of digital identity systems, we ask two core questions: a) What are appropriate uses of ID?, and b) How should we think about the technological design of ID? Towards the first research question, we have worked on first principles and will further develop definitions, legal tests and applications of these principles. Towards the second research question, we have first identified a set of existing and planned digital identity systems that represent a paradigm of how such a system can be envisioned and implemented, and will look to identify key design choices which are causing divergence in paradigm.
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Blog
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Digital ID Forum 2019
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by
Admin
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published
Jul 03, 2019
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last modified
Aug 07, 2019 02:09 PM
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filed under:
Digital ID,
Privacy,
Internet Governance,
Appropriate Use of Digital ID,
Digital Identity
Sunil Abraham was one of the panelists at this event at Chulalongkorn University on July 3, 2019.
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News & Media
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Do We Really Need an App for That? Examining the Utility and Privacy Implications of India’s Digital Vaccine Certificates
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by
Divyank Katira
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published
Aug 03, 2021
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last modified
Aug 03, 2021 05:13 AM
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filed under:
Privacy,
Digital ID,
Covid19,
Appropriate Use of Digital ID
We examine the purported benefits of digital vaccine certificates over regular paper-based ones and analyse the privacy implications of their use.
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Governing ID:
Use of Digital ID for Verification
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by
Shruti Trikanad
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published
Mar 02, 2020
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last modified
Mar 02, 2020 11:16 AM
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filed under:
internet governance,
Internet Governance,
Digital ID,
Digital Identity
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Blog
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Governing ID: A Framework for Evaluation of Digital Identity
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by
Vrinda Bhandari, Shruti Trikanad, and Amber Sinha
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published
Mar 02, 2020
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last modified
Mar 02, 2020 01:22 PM
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filed under:
internet governance,
Internet Governance,
Digital ID,
Digital Identity
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