CBDT on Tuesday extended the last date for linking of Aadhaar with Permanent Account Number (PAN) from March 31, 2018, to June 30, 2018
'In order for somebody to do Big Brother kind of a job, one has to collect lots of data and Aadhaar collects very minimal data', he said
The Central government has made it mandatory for all financial institutions, including banks, to verify and link Aadhaar of the customers with their accounts
Central Vigilance Commission said CBI and other investigating agencies earlier did not have easy access to such data
Facial recognition for the sole purpose of authentication-where consent is given-should be completely fine, but only as long as it is not used for clandestine surveillance, says Karan Saini
The SC interim order on Aadhaar implies that Aadhaar will be voluntary for the rich while being mandatory for the poor to access welfare schemes that are critical for survival
Earlier deadlines for linking Aadhaar with PAN were July 31, August 31 and Dec 31, 2017, with the last being March 31 this year
UIDAI, the nodal agency implementing the Aadhaar project, had earlier this week assured the Supreme Court that it was near to impossible to break the Aadhaar encryption
Aadhaar would include face ID besides the fingerprints and iris for authentication from July 1, said UIDAI CEO Ajay Bhushan Pandey
The biggest issue is with third party companies collecting Aadhaar data. Aadhaar numbers are spread among companies, some of which have poor security
With the BJP being in power both in Centre and most of the states, who do you think will face the voter's ire if Aadhaar-linked subsidies don't reach the beneficiaries?
'The government cannot insist for mandatory Aadhaar even for issuance of Tatkal passport,' the Supreme Court said
No relief for those availing government subsidies, benefits
Last-mile authentication with Aadhaar seems to have the worst record among other options available to check PDS pilferage. So the Centre's insistence on that option is bewildering to say the least
Aadhaar linking with income-tax permanent account number or PAN has also been made mandatory
However, in case you have not yet linked your account, here's the list of mandatory Aadhaar linkages
One hopes that the Supreme Court will take cognisance of all the ills and deaths that have resulted from the ill-thought imposition of Aadhaar
While introducing facial authentication this year, UIAD had said that this facility is going to help in inclusive authentication
India still doesn't have a data privacy law and it's evident that this govt has no real intention of legislating any such law
With Aadhaar services taken away, many CSC owners have now asked their staff to leave as volume of work reduced