I read the article carefully and the comments. The commentators, to me it seems are either biased, seeing from one angle of the problem and thus over-simplifying the complex issue or simply arrogant.
No doubt Aadhar has a lot of benefits. Transmision of Govt.benefits to the needy of the society without middle man is one of them. National identity is another.
But the issues that the author is raising is undeniably important. 1. The program must have legal identity authorised by citizen/ Parliament. 2. The illegal data monitoring by external agencies is a vital issue compromising with the sovereignity of Nations. Snowden has precisely shown it. 3. If some external agencies/ Non-nationals are giving support- that should be precisely codified. It seems that is not happening.
We, the Indian citizens must rise to the issues. well, If AAdhar has to stay for its benfits - its Ok but that should be so water tight against data snooping. Is it possible if we keep the data on cloud!!!
Re: Aadhar
by tony nadakavukaran on Oct 07, 2015 10:36 AM
Aadhar, as things stand looks a good option to give identity to all legal citizens. But concerns on data being misused?-- Well now all of us know that in US,people have voluntarily accepted a microchip size of rice grain, to be inserted on their forhead or right hand which carries all data.All these are good in intention and actual use.Problem comes when wrong hands take control of data. There is a prophecy in Bible in Revelations 13:16"And he causes all, the small and the great, and the rich and the poor, and the free men and the slaves, to be given a mark on their right hand or on their forehead, and he provides that no one will be able to buy or to sell, except the one who has the mark, either the name of the beast or the number of his name-666 " This scenario is frightening indeed,if any nation comes under control of an evil power and all data of citizens are there on the press of a button.
If that were so, why us sOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER is so successful/ People 2who are against Aadhar, do not want to streamline government ditribution of dole, ant recommend misuse of the same.
Re: `Aasdhar
by guru on Oct 10, 2015 10:11 PM
why has USA, UK, Australia, China and Philippines abandoned their biometric ID projects. During his first presidential election campaign Barack Obama promised to act against the REAL ID Act passed illegitimately for identifying citizens biometrically during the regime of George W Bush. Obama administration acted on his promise along with the States of USA.Do some home work before commenting.
What is the meaning of AADHAAR. Why it is needed to us. Without AADHAAR We, the Indian, would not be treated as Indian. It is shame on us. In our own country we are stranger. We have to keep a card to tell that we are Indian. It is a real harassment on all Indian people. Shame on us.
Re: We are stranger in our own country
by guru on Oct 10, 2015 10:13 PM
It has now come to light as per a RTI reply of April 2015 that out of 83.5 crore aadhaar numbers issued so far, only 2.19 lakh i.e. 0.03 % comprised of them who did not have a pre-existing ID proof. It shows how Indians were taken for a ride. aadhaar is not a proof of INDIANESS.
Most of developed nation have more sophisticated system than aadhaar and they have in for a very long period.Some people who are on the wrong side of law is afraid that aadhaar will help the law-enforcers to reach them are crying wolf regarding implementation of aadhaar.
Re: Bluffing.......
by guru on Oct 10, 2015 10:15 PM
All parties must rigorously examine the ramifications of biometric information based identification of residents of India in the light of global experiences. UK, China, Australia, US and France have scrapped similar initiatives. US Supreme Court, Philippines’ Supreme Court and European Court of Human Rights have ruled against the indiscriminate biometric profiling of citizens without warrant.
WHATEVER MESSAGE OR INFORMATION PASSING THROUGH INTERNET IS NOT SECRET. THIS IS TRUE WITH BANKS ALSO AS THERE ARE NO ETHICS LEFT IN COMMERCIAL WORLD BUT NOT TO ALL ONLY TO SPECIFIC PEOPLE. BUT CARE FOR RIGHTS WHEN PEOPLE ARE READY TO PERFORM THEIR DUTIES HONESTLY , WITH CORRUPTION,BLACK MONEY, BLACKMAILING ETC. AROUND WHAT IS THE SOLUTION LEFT WITH THE gOVT EXCEPT TO CONTROL THEM FULLY, IF POSSIBLE OTHERWISE POWERFUL WILL INHALE THE WEAKER. Every one is insecure , and doubting other as morals have fallen.
The author writes as if he lives in Utopia..where are no crimes and problems. Having every citizens biometric details is a good step ahead to ensure security and no duplication of social security benefits and that it reaches the deserving population.
For 1.2499 billion people Adhaar is good. For a small minority secretive about their life and actions it may be of concern. Its such a waste of effort and time to concentrate about such a minority and sacrifice the good of the majority. So please support Adhaar and do not defame people like Nandan.
Re: time and effort wasted
by guru on Oct 10, 2015 10:18 PM
The democratic mandate in the assembly election is against UID/Aadhaar, which was made compulsory and caused hardship to residents of Delhi.
I am afraid this boring article with high sounding wordings... ours is a 1.25 Billion and up poor Indians whose income still hovering around $1000 per year? my argument is WHO is stealing biometric data and for what gain?. I am not buying your bizarre THEARY. YOU are trying to safe guard the interest of tax evaders and black money hoarders?
Military-Industrial-Pharma-Banking Nexus that runs the global governments is concerned not about ordinary useless Indians like me but about the few dozen possible X-Men types who were to have been born in India after 1994. I am not saying these gifted kids have powers of a Wolverine or something but these are kids who can alter this artificial Reality Matrix with their Mind and can disrupt the global prison system installed eons ago where Death is taught as a certainty and a slave mindset is propagated among the masses.
Little do the Controlling powers know that not a single such Avatar has been born in India [except maybe Tataghat Avatar Tulsi, and he too is a proper employee type now] and it is unlikely that such a Supersoul will ever come to help Earth. The planet is a gone case. We can only pray for a steady, painless end over a few thousand years than a violent catastrophic apocalypse.
A Superhuman has super-intelligence. It takes 1/100th the energy for a Supersoul to create a happy new Planet [maybe one that the Kepler program has spotted?] than try to save a zombie planet like Earth. Only a zombie planet can have people who earn crores per month and yet allow a farmer to commit suicide over 5000 rupees.
Full marks to the identification program, let them make sure no Avatar even considers Earth. Let all Avatars go to greener pastures in the Infinite Universe. Earth is just a waste of time.
The author has expressed several concerns. It appears that the project Aadhar can potentially lead to several compromises. The whole thing may be a new kind of conspiracy to take control of the whole world. All these are mere jargons that no one can really comprehend. What is the real point that the author wants to make? Can he explain in simple terms, how a simple citizen is likely to be affected in terms of this compromises? Bio metric Data on Iris patters and finger patterns can establish the identity of a person beyond doubt. That is what is being presumed. We may come to know in future, that some of these patterns are likely to change or the computer is unable to match the patterns with integrity. Then, what happens? Linking these data with the bank account numbers does not or does it impact on our privacy? How? What is there for a common citizen to fear, unless he or she has a definite idea of turing a criminal and wishes to have the identity disguised. I can say one thing for sure. The government and the techies are spending a lot of money and generating employment that is largely unproductive and is demanding on the population to spend a lot of their time in running around government offices in getting their identity established. It's utility is not well established. Both the sides to the controversy have no convincing argument.
