Aadhaar Card Privacy

The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) on Friday described as "factually incorrect" allegations that it has shared residents' details in bulk for purposes other than those provided in the Aadhaar Act.

Aadhaar card is not mandatory to register on the government’s COVID-19 vaccination portal, Co-Win, Union Minister of State for Health Ashwini Choubey said in Lok Sabha on Friday.

The Narendra Modi government has decided to make disclosure of Aadhaar details optional for people while opening a bank account or getting a mobile connection. A cabinet note for making suitable amendments to the Aadhaar Act-2016 during the winter session of parliament has already been moved.

The Supreme Court today said that the Aadhaar scheme which collects biometric data from every citizen and assigns a national identity card to them does not violate the right to privacy and is constitutionally valid. The government, which has been arguing for the mandatory use of Aadhaar for all major transactions, has said that it holds that privac...

A decision on whether Aadhaar, or the national identity card, violates the Constitution, will be declared by five senior most judges of the Supreme Court today. For a record 38 days, the Supreme Court heard some 27 petitions that had challenged the constitutional validity of Aadhaar and called it a violation of the right to privacy of citizens.

The Delhi government has mandated students at city schools to disclose their Aadhaar and Voter ID information in an effort to identify those hailing from neighbouring states. The issue has snowballed into a major controversy, with legal experts citing privacy violations and opposition parties terming it as a "conspiracy".

The Unique Identification Authority of India today denied that it had directed telecom operators, phone makers or Google to include a helpline number for its ID card project Aadhaar after the number was spotted by users, inexplicably added to their contact lists, across the country.

Aadhaar linking: Alternative of virtual ID (VID) was devised to address the concerns of sceptics who raised privacy concerns

The government on Wednesday extended the deadline to link Aadhaar card numbers with social welfare schemes as well as small savings schemes like public provident fund (PPF), National Savings Certificate (NSC) etc. Aadhaar, the 12-digit unique identity number issued by the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI), is required to be linked wi...

There has been no breach of Aadhaar data and a majority of the country's people trust the scheme as it is completely safe, Union IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said today.

UIDAI has now released the concept of a temporary, 16-digit Virtual ID (VID) that can be used by Aadhaar card holders for authentication purposes.

For increased privacy of Aadhaar holders, the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) has introduced a temporary 16-digit virtual ID for Aadhaar holders that can be used in place of their Aadhaar numbers for authentication purposes. The new system, aimed at minimising instances of leak and misuse of Aadhaar numbers, will be effective from ...

A police case has been filed against The Tribune journalist who exposed how people could illegally access demographic data of individuals from UIDAI, the authority that issues Aadhaar numbers.

Over a billion Indian citizens may be vulnerable to identity theft and intrusions of privacy after a newspaper sting uncovered a security breach in the country's vast biometric database, which contains the personal data of almost every citizen.

Chidamabaram said the "government is completely deaf" to any reasoning against linking Aadhaar

The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) on Friday described as "factually incorrect" allegations that it has shared residents' details in bulk for purposes other than those provided in the Aadhaar Act.

Aadhaar card is not mandatory to register on the government’s COVID-19 vaccination portal, Co-Win, Union Minister of State for Health Ashwini Choubey said in Lok Sabha on Friday.

The Narendra Modi government has decided to make disclosure of Aadhaar details optional for people while opening a bank account or getting a mobile connection. A cabinet note for making suitable amendments to the Aadhaar Act-2016 during the winter session of parliament has already been moved.

The Supreme Court today said that the Aadhaar scheme which collects biometric data from every citizen and assigns a national identity card to them does not violate the right to privacy and is constitutionally valid. The government, which has been arguing for the mandatory use of Aadhaar for all major transactions, has said that it holds that privac...

A decision on whether Aadhaar, or the national identity card, violates the Constitution, will be declared by five senior most judges of the Supreme Court today. For a record 38 days, the Supreme Court heard some 27 petitions that had challenged the constitutional validity of Aadhaar and called it a violation of the right to privacy of citizens.

The Delhi government has mandated students at city schools to disclose their Aadhaar and Voter ID information in an effort to identify those hailing from neighbouring states. The issue has snowballed into a major controversy, with legal experts citing privacy violations and opposition parties terming it as a "conspiracy".

The Unique Identification Authority of India today denied that it had directed telecom operators, phone makers or Google to include a helpline number for its ID card project Aadhaar after the number was spotted by users, inexplicably added to their contact lists, across the country.

Aadhaar linking: Alternative of virtual ID (VID) was devised to address the concerns of sceptics who raised privacy concerns

The government on Wednesday extended the deadline to link Aadhaar card numbers with social welfare schemes as well as small savings schemes like public provident fund (PPF), National Savings Certificate (NSC) etc. Aadhaar, the 12-digit unique identity number issued by the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI), is required to be linked wi...

There has been no breach of Aadhaar data and a majority of the country's people trust the scheme as it is completely safe, Union IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said today.

UIDAI has now released the concept of a temporary, 16-digit Virtual ID (VID) that can be used by Aadhaar card holders for authentication purposes.

For increased privacy of Aadhaar holders, the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) has introduced a temporary 16-digit virtual ID for Aadhaar holders that can be used in place of their Aadhaar numbers for authentication purposes. The new system, aimed at minimising instances of leak and misuse of Aadhaar numbers, will be effective from ...

A police case has been filed against The Tribune journalist who exposed how people could illegally access demographic data of individuals from UIDAI, the authority that issues Aadhaar numbers.

Over a billion Indian citizens may be vulnerable to identity theft and intrusions of privacy after a newspaper sting uncovered a security breach in the country's vast biometric database, which contains the personal data of almost every citizen.

Chidamabaram said the "government is completely deaf" to any reasoning against linking Aadhaar