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Information Security Practices of Aadhaar (or lack thereof): A documentation of public availability of Aadhaar Numbers with sensitive personal financial information: by Amber Sinha and Srinivas Kodali — published May 01, 2017
In this paper, we highlight four government projects run by various government departments with publicly available financial data and Aadhaar numbers.
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Debate: Five Aadhaar Myths that Don’t Stand Up to Scrutiny: by Prasad Krishna — published Mar 23, 2016 — last modified Apr 01, 2016 03:48 PM — filed under: Aadhaar, Internet Governance, Privacy
We need to reboot the Aadhaar debate by asking why we want to create a centralised biometric database of Indian residents in the first place.
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Token security or tokenized security?: by Admin — published Jan 17, 2018 — filed under: Aadhaar, Internet Governance, Privacy
Implementing a system of tokenization for Aadhaar verification will address the security loopholes highlighted in recent reports.
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Aadhaar marks a fundamental shift in citizen-state relations: From ‘We the People’ to ‘We the Government’: by Pranesh Prakash — published Apr 04, 2017 — 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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The Aadhaar of all things: by Prasad Krishna — published Apr 03, 2017 — 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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Aadhaar seeding: benefits and concerns: by Admin — published Nov 23, 2017 — filed under: Aadhaar, Internet Governance, Privacy
Products and services such as bank accounts, life insurance policies and phone connections have to be linked with Aadhaar. But is this of any real help?
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Why experts are worried about Aadhaar-based authentication: by Prasad Krishna — published Aug 07, 2016 — filed under: Aadhaar, Internet Governance, Privacy
As private companies are increasingly using Aadhaar data, is the privacy and security of personal data really at risk? What do those defending Aadhaar have to say?
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Why is the UIDAI cracking down on individuals that hoard Aadhaar data?: by Prasad Krishna — published Apr 17, 2016 — filed under: Aadhaar, Internet Governance, Privacy
Private firms' offer to print Aadhaar details on plastic card a breach of law.
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Aadhaar's new security measures are good, it is still work in progress: by Admin — published Jan 26, 2018 — filed under: Aadhaar, Internet Governance, Privacy
Here's a rundown of the three new features that the UIDAI will introduce to make Aadhaar seemingly more secure.
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135 million aadhaar details, 100 million bank accounts "leaked" from government websites: Researchers: by Prasad Krishna — published May 05, 2017 — last modified May 20, 2017 06:19 AM — filed under: UIDAI, Aadhaar, Internet Governance, Privacy
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