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UID
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9 Mar 2016
Blog post
A comparison of the 2016 Aadhaar Bill, and the 2010 NIDAI BillThis 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
6 Mar 2016
Blog post
Flaws in the UIDAI ProcessThe 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 …
19 Sep 2014
Blog post
UID and NPR: Towards Common GroundThe UID (Unique Identification) and NPR (National Population Register) are both government identity schemes that aggregate personal data, including biometric data for the provision of an identification factor, and aim to link them with the …
19 Sep 2014
Blog post
Biometrics: An ‘Angootha Chaap’ nation?This blog post throws light on the inconsistencies in biometric collection under the UID and NPR Schemes.
11 Sep 2014
Blog post
UID: A Data Subject's Registration TaleA person who registered for UIDAI shares their experience of registering for the UID Number, on the condition of anonymity.
5 Sep 2014
Blog post
The Aadhaar CaseIn 2012 a writ petition was filed by Justice K.S. Puttaswamy in the Supreme Court of India challenging the policy of the government in making an Aadhaar card for every person in India and its later plans to link various government benefit …
28 Aug 2014
News
The Uncertain Future of India's Plan to Biometrically Identify EveryoneLast Sunday an 11-year-old boy in Andhra Pradesh, a state in southeast India, hung himself from a ceiling fan as his family slept.
13 Apr 2014
News
No party's got a clear stand, Aadhaar's fate hangs in balanceA non-UPA government for sure will review the multi-crore UID programme, but none of the parties have yet talked about scrapping it.
25 Feb 2014
Blog post
UIDAI Practices and the Information Technology Act, Section 43A and Subsequent RulesUIDAI practices and section 43A of the IT Act are analyzed in this post.
6 Jan 2014
News
Despite apex court order, IOC proceeds with Aadhaar-linked DBTOnce DBT starts, there is no other method to avail of subsidy: IOC official.
13 Dec 2013
News
MongoDB startup hired by Aadhaar got funds from CIA VC armTwo weeks ago, Max Schireson, chief executive of MongoDB, a New York-based technology startup, was in New Delhi to sew up a very important contract for his company — with the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI).
9 Dec 2013
News
Cyberscholars Working Group at MITMalavika Jayaram is giving a talk on Biometrics or Bust - India’s Identity Crisis at this event organised by Berkman Center for Internet & Society on December 12 at 6.00 p.m.
5 Dec 2013
News
Card transactions with Aadhaar validation need more time: expertsCost and supply implications are seen by experts as the main hurdles in implementing the RBI directive.