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DU Privacy Breach Put Student Bank Account And Aadhaar Details At Risk
Information gleaned from the admit-card breach can be further used to dig out even more sensitive information like Aadhaar card and bank details, a student found.
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EXCLUSIVE: Telangana Offered Its Own 360 Degree Citizen Tracking System To Modi Govt
After the Supreme Court restricted the use of Aadhaar, documents show the Telangana government offered to help the Union govt build an intrusive citizen database modelled on the state's Samagram system.
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Bureaucrat Who Planned Modi Govt's Tracking Database Now Fears A Police State
Manoranjan Kumar, once a staunch supporter of the controversial National Social Registry, now fears its misuse by the government.
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EXCLUSIVE: Documents Show Modi Govt Building 360 Degree Database To Track Every Indian
Documents obtained under RTI show the govt is planning to use Aadhaar to automatically track every single Indian from who they marry, address changes, financial status through the National Social Registry.
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'Aadhaar Has Nothing To Do With Citizenship' Claims UIDAI After Notices To 127 In Hyderabad Asking For Citizenship Documents
A notice sent to Hyderabad resident Mohd Sattar Khan clearly states he needs to bring documents to prove all your claims of citizenship during a hearing for the validity of his Aadhaar.
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Surveillance Slavery: Swachh Bharat Tags Sanitation Workers To Live-Track Their Every Move
Municipal Corporations around India are forcing predominantly Dalit street sweepers to wear GPS-enabled efficiency trackers with no regard for ethics, privacy or data security.
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As Aadhaar's Idea Spreads From Kenya To Venezuela, We Still Need To Ask Why ID?
The similarities of proposed or recently implemented digital identity programmes play themselves out across geographies, from Malaysia and the Philippines, to Kenya, Jamaica and Venezuela.
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A Year After Supreme Court Aadhaar Verdict, It's Business As Usual
Although the SC order should have checked the proliferation of Aadhaar, unclear guidelines and misinformation mean that Indians may possibly be even worse off than earlier.
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Despite Last Year's Aadhaar Judgement, Indians Have Less Privacy Than Ever
While new functionality to allow offline Aadhaar authentication has reduced risks of people being denied services, it has also increased the risks of additional privacy violations.
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Privacy Activist Usha Ramanathan On How Aadhaar Has Taken Over Our Lives
It's been a year after the Supreme Court judgement on the legality and constitutionality of the UID project. What's happened since then?
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