2,000 Aadhaar cards dumped on river bank in Tamil Nadu
India | May 17, 2019 18:21 ISTAbout 2,000 aadhaar cards have been dumped near the Mulliyaaru bank in Tiruvarur district, according to revenue officials.
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About 2,000 aadhaar cards have been dumped near the Mulliyaaru bank in Tiruvarur district, according to revenue officials.
In case the name provided on your Aadhaar is different than that on your PAN card, you will not be able to complete the linking process.
Physical Aadhaar card can be used for verification in an offline mode if produced voluntarily, the UIDAI clarified.
The apex court struck down Section 57 of the Aadhaar Act which allowed sharing of data with private entities, saying that private entities or individuals cannot avail Aadhaar data for consumer service.
The apex court, however, struck down some of its provisions including its linking with bank accounts, mobile phones and school admissions.
The judgment wil come nearly six years after the first plea against the unique identification system was filed by retired high court judge KS Puttaswamy.
The tech titan said it will "work towards fixing this in an upcoming release of SetUp wizard which will be made available to OEMs over the next few weeks".
The Minister said that Aadhaar authorities conduct nearly one crore authentications every second.
A Health Ministry release said that ABNHPM guidelines on beneficiary identification very clearly state that people can bring any other valid identity proof approved by the state if they do not have an Aadhaar.
So far, 121.17 crore residents have been enrolled for Aadhaar.
The move comes after the Supreme Court rapped the Centre over using its earlier on ‘mandatory authentication of users’ as a ‘tool’ by asking telecom operators to link their mobile numbers with Aadhaar.
The Supreme Court on Wednesday raised questions over the government's decision ordering mandatory seeding of mobile numbers with Aadhaar and said its earlier order on mandatory authentication of the users was used as a "tool".
While the government referred to verdicts in two earlier cases relating to privacy and said the top court had then held that privacy was not a fundamental right, the apex court bench said the question of privacy was “irrelevant” in these cases.
A five-judge constitution bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra, hearing a clutch of petitions challenging the validity of Aadhaar and its enabling 2016 law, prima facie disagreed with the submission and said Aadhaar was "not the solution" to banking frauds.
Attorney General KK Venugopal, who started the arguments for the Centre, urged the Constitution bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra to allow Pandey to answer the queries of the court.
In a peculiar case, a human resources manager from Bengaluru today moved the Supreme Court seeking a direction to the UIDAI to hand him back the biometric data of his late father collected for Aadhaar card.
The district administration has ordered a probe into the matter, and an FIR has also been lodged against officials of the postal department.
Trikha, resident of Gandhi Nagar locality of Nashik, was struggling for the past eight months to get an Aadhaar card, but he was turned away by several Aadhaar registration centres because it was difficult to collect his fingerprints.
The Modi government, which stormed to power in May 2014 on anti-corruption plank has continuously said that by linking various schemes with Aadhaar, it has manage to plug major source of fund leakage in social schemes.
The Supreme Court on Wednesday was told that vulnerability of citizens' demographic and biometric data collected under Aadhaar to leaks is itself the violation of their right to privacy.
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