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Foreign Media On Landmark Verdict On Aadhaar, World's Largest ID Scheme
India's Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld the validity of a giant and controversial government program to collect and store the biometric data of its billion-plus citizens, but placed new limits on how the data can be used and stored.
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On Aadhaar, Justice Ashok Bhushan Concurs With Majority Verdict
Justice Ashok Bhushan, in his separate verdict in the Aadhaar case, concurred with the majority three-judge judgement and said that the government and the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) were empowered to cure defects in the Aadhaar scheme.
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In Top Court, A PowerPoint Presentation By Aadhaar Boss To Clear Doubts
In a rare move, the Supreme Court bench hearing the legal challenge to the Aadhaar law has agreed to allow a PowerPoint presentation to be made on the controversial identification system. The five-judge bench accepted the request from the government's top law officer KK Venugopal after he argued that the chief of UIDAI, the body that issues the 12-...
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Free Choice Or State Decision: Kapil Sibal Sharpens Argument On Aadhaar In Supreme Court
The legal challenge to the Aadhaar identification programme is the most important case ever heard by the Supreme Court, more important than the 1976 verdict in which the top court upheld suspension of fundamental rights during Emergency, senior lawyer Kapil Sibal told five judges of the Supreme Court today.
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Can't Government Have Legit Concerns: Top Court On Anti-Aadhaar Argument
Can the government not have "legitimate concern" that the benefits of its social welfare schemes are reaching the right persons or verify whether the beneficiaries are even alive or not, the Supreme Court asked today.
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Aadhaar Case In Last Lap, Supreme Court To Start Hearing Today: 10 Points
A legal challenge to the Aadhaar identification project is moving into its last lap. Five judges of the Supreme Court will today start holding final hearing into a batch of petitions, the earliest one filed back in 2012, that contend the scheme violates an individual's fundamental right to privacy and challenge a 2016 law enacted by parliament that...
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'Privacy Is A Basic Right, But...': Centre In Supreme Court
Privacy is a fundamental right, the centre conceded today in the Supreme Court, but emphasized that there is a qualifier. The government has so far argued that privacy is not a basic right in the constitution and therefore cannot be applied to the Aadhaar programme for which the fingerprints and iris scans of millions of Indians have been recorded.
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Aadhaar Case: Apple Gets Your Personal Data, Why Not The State, Asks Supreme Court
While hearing a challenge to the government's massive biometric or "Aadhaar" database, the Supreme Court today said that companies like Apple already have access to the personal data of users. "When one can share personal data with private players like Apple, why not share with it with the government? What's the difference?" asked Justice DY Chandr...
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Foreign Media On Landmark Verdict On Aadhaar, World's Largest ID Scheme
India's Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld the validity of a giant and controversial government program to collect and store the biometric data of its billion-plus citizens, but placed new limits on how the data can be used and stored.
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On Aadhaar, Justice Ashok Bhushan Concurs With Majority Verdict
Justice Ashok Bhushan, in his separate verdict in the Aadhaar case, concurred with the majority three-judge judgement and said that the government and the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) were empowered to cure defects in the Aadhaar scheme.
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In Top Court, A PowerPoint Presentation By Aadhaar Boss To Clear Doubts
In a rare move, the Supreme Court bench hearing the legal challenge to the Aadhaar law has agreed to allow a PowerPoint presentation to be made on the controversial identification system. The five-judge bench accepted the request from the government's top law officer KK Venugopal after he argued that the chief of UIDAI, the body that issues the 12-...
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Free Choice Or State Decision: Kapil Sibal Sharpens Argument On Aadhaar In Supreme Court
The legal challenge to the Aadhaar identification programme is the most important case ever heard by the Supreme Court, more important than the 1976 verdict in which the top court upheld suspension of fundamental rights during Emergency, senior lawyer Kapil Sibal told five judges of the Supreme Court today.
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Can't Government Have Legit Concerns: Top Court On Anti-Aadhaar Argument
Can the government not have "legitimate concern" that the benefits of its social welfare schemes are reaching the right persons or verify whether the beneficiaries are even alive or not, the Supreme Court asked today.
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Aadhaar Case In Last Lap, Supreme Court To Start Hearing Today: 10 Points
A legal challenge to the Aadhaar identification project is moving into its last lap. Five judges of the Supreme Court will today start holding final hearing into a batch of petitions, the earliest one filed back in 2012, that contend the scheme violates an individual's fundamental right to privacy and challenge a 2016 law enacted by parliament that...
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'Privacy Is A Basic Right, But...': Centre In Supreme Court
Privacy is a fundamental right, the centre conceded today in the Supreme Court, but emphasized that there is a qualifier. The government has so far argued that privacy is not a basic right in the constitution and therefore cannot be applied to the Aadhaar programme for which the fingerprints and iris scans of millions of Indians have been recorded.
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Aadhaar Case: Apple Gets Your Personal Data, Why Not The State, Asks Supreme Court
While hearing a challenge to the government's massive biometric or "Aadhaar" database, the Supreme Court today said that companies like Apple already have access to the personal data of users. "When one can share personal data with private players like Apple, why not share with it with the government? What's the difference?" asked Justice DY Chandr...
