#aadhaar — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #aadhaar, aggregated by home.social.
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India’s Aadhaar-inspired digital identity model is now being adopted or explored by more than 25 nations. This is not the magical solution it's being peddled as.
Institutions are facing this issue where they need to verify certain attributes about their users (i.e. age, residency, eligibility, licensure). Their solution seems to just be, "tell me exactly who you are, or we won't give you access to this resource," and that's absurd. An institution should be able to verify that I am over 18 without learning my identity, and it should be able to verify that I live somewhere without receiving a permanent identifier it can retain into perpetuity.
Systems like Aadhaar are presented as privacy-preserving ways to prove who you are. While these systems include protections and regulations (i.e. limited disclosures), they still contribute to a system capable of identifying an individual across banks, telecom companies, healthcare providers, employers, social platforms, and government agencies.
And this is a system that can be further weakened by bad implementation, policy change, security breach, policy loopholes, or abuse of power. As with Flock, we need to be careful of the systems we build public dependence on.
I don't want my identity to be converted into machine-readable infrastructure around which governments and corporations can build.
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Vindication #2? India’s biometric and digital-control infrastructure is no longer dismissible as fringe speculation. Gates is now openly celebrating the Indian model—without calling it “capture.”
This update preserves the original date-stamped article, shows what was predicted accurately, what is now verified, and what remains hypothesis.
https://thomaster.substack.com/p/indias-bio-nano-web-of-control
#BillGates #India #DigitalID #Surveillance #Technocracy #Aadhaar #DigitalPublicInfrastructure #CBDC #UN #WEF #GlobalGovernance
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#India makes #Aadhaar more ubiquitous, but critics say security and privacy concerns remain - https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/09/india-makes-aadhaar-more-ubiquitous-but-critics-say-privacy-concerns-remain/
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No Match: Rajasthan’s Push for Facial Authentication on Pensioners Leaves Many Behind
India has pushed Aadhaar digital ID abroad as welfare enhancing and AI-ready in use of facial technology. Back home, pensioners have no real option but to consent: not giving facial data means no pension.
by Anumeha Yadav
The Wire
January 6, 2026
#India #Rajasthan #DigitalIndia #DigitalGovernance #DigitalID #FacialRecognition #Aadhaar #ArtificialIntelligence #AI #exclusion #discrimination #pensions #labour #labor #LabourRights #LaborRights -
NEW - Bad news for Indian citizens. #Proxyearth lets anyone trace your location using just a mobile number. Worse? it shows Aadhaar numbers in plain text.
Read: https://hackread.com/proxyearth-trace-users-india-mobile-number/
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UIDAI Rolls Out Revamped Aadhaar App With Major Privacy Upgrades
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Breaking News -Adhar: Key decision on the use of Aadhaar
https://vaartha.com/national/key-decision-on-the-use-of-aadhaar/587071/
#BreakingNews #Aadhaar #SupremeCourt #AadhaarDecision #IdentityProof #ElectionCommission #VoterID #DigitalIndia #AadhaarUpdate #LegalNews #AadhaarUse #IndiaNews #DigitalIdentity -
Translation: "She has obtained everyone's #Aadhaar information." A reference to India's national biometric digital ID.
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Randomly thinking of the scene in the movie Stree where the townsfolk gather for a meeting. A man asks how the malicious spirit knows the names of the persons she strips naked and abducts. Rudra, the librarian, replies, "Sab ka Aadhaar linked hai uske paas." ("She has obtained everyone's #Aadhaar information", a reference to India's national biometric digital ID.) That joke worked at so many levels.
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Welcome to Day 1 of DPI in Conversation!
Join us today to kick off our long week event, "#DPIinConversation," with a panel discussion on "Bridging the Digital Divide" at 6 pm IST.
During the session, we'll explore the real-world impact of DPI and technology on Indian society and daily life.
➡️ Join the conversation: https://form.sflc.in/dpi-in-conversation/
Details:
🗓️ July 7-11, 2025
🕕 6-7 pm IST
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Alleged Data Breach at Tradgo: 4.4 GB Database Reportedly for Sale Online https://dailydarkweb.net/alleged-data-breach-at-tradgo-in-4-4-gb-database-reportedly-for-sale-online/ #CyberSecurity #financialdata #DataBreaches #databreach #allegedly #dataleak #tradgoin #userdata #Aadhaar #India
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Sanjay Dutt’s The Bhootnii races ahead collects ₹4.11 Cr despite limited screens
#TycoonWorld #India #DigitalIndia #FinancialInclusion #DigitalEconomy #Technology #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Bollywood #IndianCinema #Movies #BoxOffice #TheBhootnii #SanjayDutt #MouniRoy #PalakTiwari #BollywoodHorrorComedy #DigitalTransformationIndia #GovtInitiatives #Aadhaar #DBT #MobileBanking #DigitalLiteracy #TechIndia #MakeInIndia #StartUpIndia
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TechCrunch: India expands Aadhaar authentication for businesses, raising privacy concerns. “India has eased restrictions on its Aadhaar authentication service, a digital identity verification framework linked to the biometrics of more than 1.4 billion people, to let businesses, including those offering services such as e-commerce, travel, hospitality, and healthcare, use the verification […]
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#India Wants Wide Business Use Of Its Huge #Aadhaar #Biometric Database, Now With Facial Recognition - https://www.techdirt.com/2025/02/11/india-wants-wide-business-use-of-its-huge-aadhaar-biometric-database-now-with-facial-recognition/ my latest piece on this troubling project #privacy #surveillance
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»#India has eased restrictions on its #Aadhaar #authentication service, a #digitalidentity verification framework linked to the #biometrics of over 1.4 billion people.« https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/02/india-expands-aadhaar-authentication-for-businesses-raising-privacy-concerns/?eicker.news #tech #media
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Govt institutions in India (both state and central) keep coercing citizens to enrol for and then share their national biometric identifier #aadhaar .
The worst part is, since the Supreme court verdict, this sharing is supposed to be voluntary. But portals are built to make it mandatory and ultimately things get stuck in the courts which move glacially.
https://www.medianama.com/2023/11/223-plea-collection-aadhaar-data-education-data-registry/
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Retired Justice KS Puttaswamy whose petition against #Aadhaar before the supreme court of #India gave us "Right to #Privacy" as a fundamental constitutional right. He passed away today at the age of 98. He did what he can do.
It is up to us to uphold this right and help everyone exercise the right. Thank you Sir.
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How's life without an #Aadhaar?
@jackerhack tries to answer in this piece, talking about the coercion, stupidity and exclusion that has come to define Aadhaar for me as well.
https://www.deccanherald.com/india/life-without-aadhaar-3200235
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So just like #Aadhaar, it’ll be an optionally mandatory thing for companies.
Good! Lets see the rich start to drop their support for the regime because this is going to cost them money.
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Modi Took a 180-Degree Turn on Aadhaar, But the ‘I Am Me’ Card’s Flaws Remain
In 2014, Narendra Modi referred to the Aadhaar programme as a “political gimmick”. Two years later, his government pushed the Aadhaar Act through parliament. In the last 10 years, while carefully maintaining that it is a “voluntary” programme, his government has slowly but surely ensured that Aadhaar is mandatory in all the ways that matter.
#aadhaar #UIDAI #identification #biometrics #privacy #governance #AadhaarLinking #NandanNilekani #NarendraModi #BJP #UPA #india
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Hacktivist Groups Target Indian Elections, Leak Personal Data, Says Report https://www.hackread.com/hacktivist-indian-elections-leak-personal-data/ #Cybersecurity #CyberAttacks #CyberAttack #databreach #HACKTIVISM #Elections #Security #Election #Aadhaar #India
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Election Commission ushers India to its electoral nadir
The current ECs are twisting the knife in the deeply wounded electoral process. They have taken a weak, inadequate system and murdered its soul. Palanivel Thiaga Rajan writes.
#LokSabhaElection #ElectionCommission #ECI #VotersList #aadhaar #EVMs #ModelCodeOfConduct #ElectionCommissioners #manipur #india