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Press Release, March 11, 2016: The Law cannot Fix what Technology has Broken!
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Japreet Grewal and Sunil Abraham
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Mar 16, 2016
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Mar 16, 2016 10:10 AM
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We published and circulated the following press release on March 11, 2016, as the Lok Sabha passed the Aadhaar (Targeted Delivery of Financial and Other Subsidies, Benefits and Services) Bill, 2016. This Bill was proposed by finance minister, Mr. Arun Jaitley to give legislative backing to Aadhaar, being implemented by the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI).
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An Urgent Need for the Right to Privacy
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by
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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Will Only Legal Backing For Aadhaar Suffice?
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Prasad Krishna
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Mar 16, 2016
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Aadhaar,
Internet Governance,
Privacy
Aadhaar is set to become mandatory, but the opponents of the scheme are not amused. Concerns about privacy of the Aadhaar number and the authenticity of the biometric data being collected have been expressed by people right from the beginning. But the government has not done much to address these issues.
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The New Aadhaar Bill in Plain English
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Amber Sinha, Vanya Rakesh and Vipul Kharbanda
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Mar 11, 2016
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Mar 11, 2016 04:41 AM
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We have put together a plain English version of the The Aadhaar (Targeted Delivery of Financial and Other Subsidies, Benefits and Services) Bill, 2016.
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Aadhaar Bill fails to incorporate suggestions by the Standing Committee
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Amber Sinha
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Mar 10, 2016
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Mar 10, 2016 03:58 PM
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In 2011, a standing committee report led by Yashwant Sinha had been scathing in its indictments of the Aadhaar BIll introduced by the UPA government. Five years later, the NDA government has introduced a new bill which is a rehash of the same. I look at the concerns raised by the committee report, none of which have been addressed by the new bill.
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Aadhaar Bill 2016 & NIAI Bill 2010 - Comparing the Texts
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Sumandro Chattapadhyay
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Mar 09, 2016
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Mar 09, 2016 11:25 AM
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This is a quick comparison of the texts of the Aadhaar Bill 2016 and the National Identification Authority of India Bill 2010. The new sections in the former are highlighed, and the deleted sections (that were part of the latter) are struck out.
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A comparison of the 2016 Aadhaar Bill, and the 2010 NIDAI Bill
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by
Vanya Rakesh
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Mar 09, 2016
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Aadhaar,
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UID
This blog post does a clause-by-clause comparison of the provisions of National Identification Authority of India Bill, 2010 and the Aadhaar (Targeted Delivery of Financial and Other Subsidies, Benefits and Services) Act, 2016
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Aadhaar: Still Too Many Problems
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Pranesh Prakash
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Mar 07, 2016
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Apr 06, 2016 03:31 PM
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Aadhaar,
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Privacy
While one wishes to welcome govt’s attempt to bring Aadhaar within a legislative framework, the fact is there are too many problems that still remain unaddressed for one to be optimistic.
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Flaws in the UIDAI Process
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by
Hans Varghese Mathews
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Mar 06, 2016
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Mar 06, 2016 10:40 AM
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The accuracy of biometric identification depends on the chance of a false positive: the probability that the identifiers of two persons will match. Individuals whose identifiers match might be termed duplicands. When very many people are to be identified success can be measured by the (low) proportion of duplicands. The Government of India is engaged upon biometrically identifying the entire population of India. An experiment performed at an early stage of the programme has allowed us to estimate the chance of a false positive: and from that to estimate the proportion of duplicands. For the current population of 1.2 billion the expected proportion of duplicands is 1/121, a ratio which is far too high.
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Comments by the Centre for Internet and Society on the Report of the Committee on Medium Term Path on Financial Inclusion
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Vipul Kharbanda
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Feb 27, 2016
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Mar 01, 2016 01:53 PM
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Apart from item-specific suggestions, CIS would like to make one broad comment with regard to the suggestions dealing with linking of Aadhaar numbers with bank accounts. Aadhaar is increasingly being used by the government in various departments as a means to prevent fraud, however there is a serious dearth of evidence to suggest that Aadhaar linkage actually prevents leakages in government schemes. The same argument would be applicable when Aadhaar numbers are sought to be utilized to prevent leakages in the banking sector.
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