Aadhaar Controversy

The controversial law linking Aadhaar and Voter Identity Card has been challenged in the Supreme Court, with Congress's Randeep Singh Surjewala demanding that it be repealed. The top court will hear the case tomorrow.

The linking of Aadhaar and voter ID cards will be "voluntary and not compulsory", Law Minister Kiren Rijiju told NDTV Tuesday, amid protests against the controversial Election Laws (Amendment) Bill and the manner in which it was passed.

Four changes in the electoral law, the key one allowing linking of Aadhaar to the voter identity card, was passed in the Lok Sabha amid uproar today. The opposition demanded a review of the bill, arguing against the Aadhaar-voter I-card link.

The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) told the Supreme Court on Tuesday it has withdrawn the controversial tender seeking to invite bids for a social media monitoring agency to deal with misconceptions about Aadhaar.

India's Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld the validity of a giant and controversial government program to collect and store the biometric data of its billion-plus citizens, but placed new limits on how the data can be used and stored.

The Delhi government has mandated students at city schools to disclose their Aadhaar and Voter ID information in an effort to identify those hailing from neighbouring states. The issue has snowballed into a major controversy, with legal experts citing privacy violations and opposition parties terming it as a "conspiracy".

At a time when the focus is on threats to privacy of our data, a controversy has erupted over the Petroleum Ministry asking 10 lakh petrol pump employees for sensitive personal details like their caste, religion and constituency.

RS Sharma, the telecom watchdogwho threw the controversial Aadhaar challenge, has been given two more years as head of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI). Mr Sharma's term was to end this week.

Google's admission that it had in 2014 inadvertently coded the 112 distress number and the UIDAI helpline number into its setup wizard for Android devices triggered another controversy on Saturday as India's telecom regulator had only recommended the use of 112 as an emergency number in April 2015.

Aadhaar authority UIDAI has refuted the toll-free number controversy on Twitter, saying it is not responsible for the placement in users' phonebooks.

A leak of Aadhaar data can influence the outcome of an election, the Supreme Court said today, expressing its concerns about the issue amid the huge controversy over the illegal use of Facebook data in the US elections.

Amidst controversies surrounding Cambridge Analytica and Facebook on the data breach issue, Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad on Sunday said the government would not tolerate any unauthorised use of data for abuse or to influence elections.

In a rare move, the Supreme Court bench hearing the legal challenge to the Aadhaar law has agreed to allow a PowerPoint presentation to be made on the controversial identification system. The five-judge bench accepted the request from the government's top law officer KK Venugopal after he argued that the chief of UIDAI, the body that issues the 12-...

Aadhaar card, the world's largest domestic biometric identification system, may have been surrounded by controversies; but it proved to be a saviour for a man from Tamil Nadu.

Can the income tax department cancel PAN cards and prevent people from filing their income-tax returns from 1 July if they do not produce an Aadhaar number? Today, a two-judge bench of the Supreme Court will rule on a bunch of petitions challenging the constitutional validity of the controversial amendment to the income tax law that forces people t...

The controversial law linking Aadhaar and Voter Identity Card has been challenged in the Supreme Court, with Congress's Randeep Singh Surjewala demanding that it be repealed. The top court will hear the case tomorrow.

The linking of Aadhaar and voter ID cards will be "voluntary and not compulsory", Law Minister Kiren Rijiju told NDTV Tuesday, amid protests against the controversial Election Laws (Amendment) Bill and the manner in which it was passed.

Four changes in the electoral law, the key one allowing linking of Aadhaar to the voter identity card, was passed in the Lok Sabha amid uproar today. The opposition demanded a review of the bill, arguing against the Aadhaar-voter I-card link.

The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) told the Supreme Court on Tuesday it has withdrawn the controversial tender seeking to invite bids for a social media monitoring agency to deal with misconceptions about Aadhaar.

India's Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld the validity of a giant and controversial government program to collect and store the biometric data of its billion-plus citizens, but placed new limits on how the data can be used and stored.

The Delhi government has mandated students at city schools to disclose their Aadhaar and Voter ID information in an effort to identify those hailing from neighbouring states. The issue has snowballed into a major controversy, with legal experts citing privacy violations and opposition parties terming it as a "conspiracy".

At a time when the focus is on threats to privacy of our data, a controversy has erupted over the Petroleum Ministry asking 10 lakh petrol pump employees for sensitive personal details like their caste, religion and constituency.

RS Sharma, the telecom watchdogwho threw the controversial Aadhaar challenge, has been given two more years as head of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI). Mr Sharma's term was to end this week.

Google's admission that it had in 2014 inadvertently coded the 112 distress number and the UIDAI helpline number into its setup wizard for Android devices triggered another controversy on Saturday as India's telecom regulator had only recommended the use of 112 as an emergency number in April 2015.

Aadhaar authority UIDAI has refuted the toll-free number controversy on Twitter, saying it is not responsible for the placement in users' phonebooks.

A leak of Aadhaar data can influence the outcome of an election, the Supreme Court said today, expressing its concerns about the issue amid the huge controversy over the illegal use of Facebook data in the US elections.

Amidst controversies surrounding Cambridge Analytica and Facebook on the data breach issue, Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad on Sunday said the government would not tolerate any unauthorised use of data for abuse or to influence elections.

In a rare move, the Supreme Court bench hearing the legal challenge to the Aadhaar law has agreed to allow a PowerPoint presentation to be made on the controversial identification system. The five-judge bench accepted the request from the government's top law officer KK Venugopal after he argued that the chief of UIDAI, the body that issues the 12-...

Aadhaar card, the world's largest domestic biometric identification system, may have been surrounded by controversies; but it proved to be a saviour for a man from Tamil Nadu.

Can the income tax department cancel PAN cards and prevent people from filing their income-tax returns from 1 July if they do not produce an Aadhaar number? Today, a two-judge bench of the Supreme Court will rule on a bunch of petitions challenging the constitutional validity of the controversial amendment to the income tax law that forces people t...