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"Will the Magic Number Deliver?" - Roundtable on Aadhaar at CSLG, JNU, April 26
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Sumandro Chattapadhyay
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Apr 20, 2016
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Apr 20, 2016 10:49 AM
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The Centre for the Study of Law and Governance (CSLG), Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), will organise a roundtable discussion on Tuesday, April 26, to discuss the Aadhaar project and Act. Along with Rajeev Chandrasekhar, Prasanna S, Apar Gupta, and Chirashree Dasgupta, Sumandro Chattapadhyay will be one of the discussants. It will take place in the CSLG Conference Room at 6 pm.
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130 Million at Risk of Fraud After Massive Leak of Indian Biometric System Data
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Prasad Krishna
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May 03, 2017
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May 20, 2017 12:36 PM
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Biometrics,
Aadhaar,
Internet Governance,
Privacy
A series of potentially calamitous leaks in India leave as many as 130 million people at risk of fraud or worse after caches of biometric and other personal data became accessible online.
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Aadhaar Act and its Non-compliance with Data Protection Law in India
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Vanya Rakesh
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Apr 14, 2016
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Apr 18, 2016 11:43 AM
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This post compares the provisions of the Aadhaar Act, 2016, with India's data protection regime as articulated in the Information Technology (Reasonable Security Practices and Procedures and Sensitive Personal Data or Information) Rules, 2011.
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Aadhaar Bill 2016 Evaluated against the National Privacy Principles
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Pooja Saxena and Amber Sinha
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Mar 21, 2016
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In this infographic, we evaluate the privacy provisions of the Aadhaar Bill 2016 against the national privacy principles developed by the Group of Experts on Privacy led by the Former Chief Justice A.P. Shah in 2012. The infographic is based on Vipul Kharbanda’s article 'Analysis of Aadhaar Act in the Context of A.P. Shah Committee Principles,' and is designed by Pooja Saxena, with inputs from Amber Sinha.
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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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Pranesh Prakash
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Apr 04, 2017
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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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Aadhaar: A widening net
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Prasad Krishna
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Apr 22, 2017
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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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Advanced biometric technologies and new market entries tackle fraud, chase digital ID billions
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Chris Burt
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Jun 28, 2021
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Privacy,
Internet Governance,
UIDAI,
Biometrics,
Aadhaar
Amid forecasts of rapid growth and huge market potential, digital ID platforms launches by Techsign and Ping Identity, new services, features and even an investment fund have been launched.
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An Urgent Need for the Right to Privacy
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Sumandro Chattapadhyay
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Mar 16, 2016
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Mar 17, 2016 07:40 AM
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Along with a group of individuals and organisations from academia and civil society, we have drafted and are signatories to an open letter addressed to the Union government and urging the same to "urgently take steps to uphold the constitutional basis to the right to privacy and fulfil it’s constitutional and international obligations." Here we publish the text of the open letter. Please follow the link below to support it by joining the signatories.
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Analysis of Aadhaar Act in the Context of A.P. Shah Committee Principles
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by
Vipul Kharbanda
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Mar 17, 2016
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Mar 17, 2016 07:43 PM
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Whilst there are a number of controversies relating to the Aadhaar Act including the fact that it was introduced in a manner so as to circumvent the majority of the opposition in the upper house of the Parliament and that it was rushed through the Lok Sabha in a mere eight days, in this paper we shall discuss the substantial aspects of the Act in relation to privacy concerns which have been raised by a number of experts. In October 2012, the Group of Experts on Privacy constituted by the Planning Commission under the chairmanship of Justice AP Shah Committee submitted its report which listed nine principles of privacy which all legislations, especially those dealing with personal should adhere to. In this paper, we shall discuss how the Aadhaar Act fares vis-à-vis these nine principles.
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Analysis of Key Provisions of the Aadhaar Act Regulations
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by
Amber Sinha
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Mar 31, 2017
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Apr 03, 2017 02:05 PM
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Privacy,
Internet Governance,
UIDAI,
Biometrics,
Aadhaar
In exercise of their powers under of the powers conferred by Aadhaar (Targeted Delivery of Financial and other Subsidies, Benefits and Services) Act, 2016, (Aadhaar Act) the UIDAI has come out with a set of five regulations in late 2016 last year. In this policy brief, we look at the five regulations, their key provisions and highlight point out the unresolved, issues, unaddressed, and created issues as result of these regulations.
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