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Open Letter to the Finance Committee: Operational Design
— by Prasad Krishna — last modified Feb 17, 2011 10:02 AMThe objective of the UID project is to provide identity infrastructure that is not susceptible to fraud or error. This note highlights parts of the operational design of the project, which are flawed. We plead that each point be taken into consideration and that the design be suitably revised.
Open Letter to the Finance Committe: Biometrics
— by Prasad Krishna — last modified Feb 17, 2011 01:12 PMThis note points out the weaknesses inherent in biometrics and the pitfalls in using them. It recommends procedural safeguards that should be adopted by the UID in order to make the use of biometrics more secure and inclusive.
Open Letter to the Finance Committee: Finance and Security
— by Prasad Krishna — last modified Feb 17, 2011 11:57 AMThis note explores the three connections between finance and security and demonstrates the cost implications of operating a centrally designed identity management system as proposed by the UID. In doing so, it shows how the monitoring, storing, and securing of transactional data in a centralized database fall short of meeting the project's objectives of authentication, and thus is an additional cost. Further, it is argued that the blanket monitoring of the transaction database is not an effective method of detecting fraud, and is an expensive component of the project.
Conference Report: 'Privacy Matters' Bangalore
— by Prasad Krishna — last modified Feb 08, 2011 05:13 AMOn February 5th the 'Privacy Matters" conference was held at the TERI Regional Center in Bangalore. The event was a full day and centered around issues of privacy including: privacy rights of minorities, privacy and open government data, and privacy and identity.
Analysing the Right to Privacy and Dignity with Respect to the UID
— by Deva Prasad — last modified Mar 21, 2012 09:54 AMIn the below note, Deva Prasad, LLM Candidate at NLSIU, explores the challenges that the UID project faces from a legal perspective.
Privacy Matters — Conference Report
— by Prasad Krishna — last modified Jan 27, 2011 10:22 AMA one-day conference on Privacy Matters was held on Sunday, 23 January 2011 at the National University of Juridical Sciences (NUJS) Law School in Kolkata. This was the first of a series of eleven conferences on ‘privacy’ that Privacy India is scheduled to host in different Indian cities from January to June this year. Members of Parliament, Sri Manoj Bhattacharya from the Revolutionary Socialist Party (RSP) and Sri Nilotpal Basu from the Communist Party of India (Marxist) CPI (M) spoke in the conference. Students, the civil society and lawyers also participated in it.
Privacy Matters Conference Agenda
— by Prasad Krishna — last modified Jan 14, 2011 11:45 AMThe "Privacy Matters" conference is taking place on Sunday January 23rd, at NUJS Law school at 10:30. It is a full day event that will discuss the challenges and concerns of privacy in India. Below is the agenda for the event. We look forward to your participation and attendance.
An Open Letter to the Finance Committee: SCOSTA Standards
— by Elonnai Hickok — last modified Dec 20, 2013 03:58 AMThe UID Bill has been placed to the Finance Committee for review and approval. Through a series of open letters to the Finance Committee, civil society is asking the committee to take into consideration and change certain aspects of the Bill and the project. The below note compares the SCOSTA standard with the Aadhaar biometric standard, and explains why we believe the SCOSTA standard should replace the Aadhaar biometric standard for the authentication process in the UID scheme.
Jurisdictional Issues in Cyberspace
— by Justice S Muralidhar — last modified Mar 21, 2012 10:00 AMThis article by Justice S Muralidhar was published in the Indian Journal of Law and Technology, Volume 6, 2010. It explores in detail the jurisdiction of courts when dealing with disputes arising from commercial transactions on the Internet.
Does the UID Reflect India?
— by Elonnai Hickok — last modified Mar 22, 2012 05:45 AMOn December 17th the Campaign for No UID held a press conference and public meeting in Bangalore. Below is a summary and analysis of the events.
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