#aadhaar stories

The UIDAI citizen identity project is now facing the Streisand effect, with increased scrutiny from international security researchers following a Tribune …

The Indian government’s plans of exporting the technology layer powering Aadhaar, the country’s digital identity system and software stack that …

The US does it, so does China. Ever since Edward Snowden’s revelations back in 2013, which exposed the extent of …

India’s deployment of data analytics in its public spheres in the past few years is ready to graduate to the …

NITI Aayog, the government of India think-tank, is working on building the country’s largest blockchain network – IndiaChain – with …

For a complete roll out to take place, many things, including India’s data protection law and sector specific regulations need to fall in place.

The draft legislation is expected to be ready in about a year.

On Wednesday, ride-hailing company Uber is set to make a public announcement of a payment feature that it has built …

Supreme Court reserves judgement. Final judgement should be out before August 27 when Chief Justice of India Jagdish Singh Khehar retires.

The SC hearings on right to privacy will continue today (August 2) and it is quite likely to be the final day of arguments in court.

Ananya Birla started Svatantra in 2012, when she was 17. Today, she has learnt invaluable lessons in how to target microfinance better than industry peers.

On Day 4, the counsels for Centre and State of Maharashtra doubled down on arguments made against SC locating “right to privacy” as a fundamental right.

Day 3 of Aadhaar SC hearing: Centre, petitioners diverge on place of fundamental right to privacy in Constitution.

On Thursday, the arguments proceeded along similar lines as Wednesday; the hearings will continue for at least another day, if not two more.

At 84, Anil Divan appeared for senior advocate Ram Jethmalani to help him fight for the right way to bring …

Like the proverbial London bus, it took nearly 700 days for Supreme Court to set up the Constitution bench to …

In Haryana’s Kapadwas village, bad internet is forcing people seeking ration to climb up to the rooftop of the ration depot to verify their fingerprints.

FactorDaily caught up with Pramod Varma to understand the technology behind the GST regime, the power of data, and India’s data privacy law.

Sixty-five families with leprosy patients in Indira Chakravarti on the outskirts of Karnal in Haryana haven’t received ration since last month.

In his blog, the TRAI chairman argues that publication of Aadhaar details isn’t a data leak; in fact, the RTI act mandates it. Let’s settle this debate.