Tag: Aadhaar
World Economic Forum Lauds India’s Biometric Digital ID System Tied To Digital Payments
The World Economic Forum is lauding India’s Unified Payment Interface (UPI) for revolutionizing digital payments and cited that it has saved the Indian economy approximately $67...
Indian citizens that don’t link account numbers to Digital ID will soon face financial blacklisting
December 13, 2022: Forcing the uptake of digital ID.
India’s income tax administration has warned citizens that they should link their Permanent Account Numbers (PANs)...
What is MOSIP’s role in digital public infrastructure? Gates Foundation explains
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, one of the world’s largest charitable organizations, has published a primer on MOSIP (Modular Open-Source Identification Platform), summarizing the project’s achievements and...
Union health minister’s one-size-fits-all ploy: One world, one health… and one gender?
By Dr. (Prof) Amitav Banerjee, Epidemiologist
Universal Health Organisation (UHO), Chairman
Postdoctoral in epidemiology, who was a field epidemiologist for over two decades in the Indian...
The rural wage rule GOI must relinquish
Many NREGA workers are not paid at all because the Aadhaar-based wage payment system is useless, opaque, glitchy, and fraud-prone.
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Indian state government leaks thousands of Aadhaar numbers
Another security lapse involving India's national identity system
Lapse in security has led to the leaking of more than 100,000 Aadhaar numbers, TechCrunch can reveal. February...