Nailing Us Down for Profit
There is an urgency to give corporates access to the UID system so that it goes back to the original purpose of the project: to provide a means by which every individual can be identified across databases.
by Usha Ramanathan
Feb 08, 2019
2 minutes
The September 26, 2018, judgment of the Supreme Court was unequivocal: the Aadhaar Act, 2016, where it enabled companies (bodies corporate) and individuals to seek authentication from the Unique Identification Authority of India, or UIDAI, database was "unconstitutional". Making "Aadhaar compulsory in the name of checking money laundering or black money is grossly disproportionate" and "unconstitutional". The linking of the UID number with mobile phones was "disproportionate and unreasonable
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