India Withdraws Warning On National Biometric ID After Online Panic

India on Sunday withdrew a warning not to share photocopies of the national biometric identity card after the announcement caused widespread panic on social media.

Aadhaar and My Brush With Digital Exclusion

Before the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, our TV screens were swarmed by a relentless advertising spree selling the myriad benefits that came with acquiring an Aadhaar card. They showed displayed …

Over 500 Aadhaar Activists, Organisations Slam EC's Proposal to Link Aadhaar with Voter ID | NewsClick

The ECI’s claim that this linking would be based on "voluntariness" is a grossly inadequate safeguard as highlighted throughout the Aadhaar project that “voluntary” on paper translates to a coercive mechanism in practice, the statement says.

Why linking Aadhaar with voter IDs could end up excluding voters - Times of India

India News: Experiments with linking Aadhaar with voter IDs show that the move can be dangerous and plagued with problems. Why then does the government want to li

Access Now report holds up poster child Aadhaar as ‘Big ID’ bugbear | Biometric Update

The Aadhaar biometric ID program is presented as a cautionary tale for all the ills of Big ID and its growing number of digital ID projects.

IFF submits its comments on the Draft Aadhaar (Pricing of Aadhaar Authentication Services) Regulations

We have provided our comments on the Draft Aadhaar (Pricing of Aadhaar Authentication Services) Regulations 2021. In our comments, we recommended that Aadhaar authentication charges be scrapped and private entities be barred from acting as...

There are four to five kinds of people who support aadhaar

1. The well meaning ones, who believe that it works, does no damage and is the cure for all the “crooked” Indians. That any flaws can simply be “fixed”. That it will lead to…

India’s Aadhaar proves Big ID is still a bad idea - Access Now

Despite all the propaganda in favour of it, Aadhaar, India's Big ID program, has had a disastrous impact on the lives of millions. Read Access Now's new report.