Tag: Aadhaar

Tiles List

Press Releases

Who wins by linking Co-WIN to Aadhaar?

Access Now echoes the Rethink Aadhaar campaign’s serious privacy concerns around India’s Co-WIN app, and potential misuse of personal data.…

17 February 2021

Blog

Digital Identity

Government responses to COVID-19 reinforce the need to ask — #WhyID?

The ongoing global health crisis has demonstrated with painful clarity the risks posed by digital identity systems that centralize biometric data, health records, and other sensitive personal information. It is essential that governments, development agencies, funders, and all other stakeholders first ask the question #WhyID.…

29 April 2020

United Nations Human Rights Concil

Press Releases

Business and Human Rights

United Nations: protect rights in welfare systems’ tech overhaul

Governments should pay attention to the call of the United Nations’ leading expert on poverty to fully integrate human rights protections into their efforts to digitize and automate welfare benefits and services.…

17 October 2019

Blog

Review of action on digital rights in India’s Parliament shows opportunity for more engagement

We hope to see India’s Parliament increase the substance and quantity of initiatives for protecting Indians’ digital rights.…

15 October 2019

Access Now in the News

India’s facial recognition plans anger privacy campaigners

Sept 29, 2019, Benjamin Parkin, Financial Times.

29 September 2019

Access Now in the News

As Aadhaar’s idea spreads from Kenya to Venezuela, we still need to ask – Why ID?

As centralized and ubiquitous digital identity programs proliferate across the globe, Access Now’s Naman Aggarwal asks: why isn’t the world learning from the Indian experience?

27 September 2019

Access Now in the News

More legislation on digital rights in Lok Sabha than Rajya Sabha: report

August 8th, 2019, Karishma Mehrotra, The Indian Express.

8 August 2019

Blog

India’s update to Aadhaar — a failure to fix the world’s largest biometrics-based national digital ID programme

The new amendment bill would undo the Indian Supreme Court’s adopted principles for protecting privacy and data security in the Aadhaar digital ID programme. …

26 June 2019

AI ethics

Press Releases

Dr. Usha Ramanathan declared “Hero” for speaking out against India’s controversial Aadhaar digital identity program

Today, Access Now announces its selection of Indian privacy activist Dr. Usha Ramanathan as a 2018 Human Rights Hero.…

8 June 2019

Blog

As Aadhaar amendment Bill lapses, Indian policymakers should rethink the digital identity project

It is now clear that the badly designed system will do more harm than good. But it cannot be fixed through patchwork changes.
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26 February 2019

Blog

Protecting our privacy under the CLOUD: what new agreements should look like

The U.S. is currently in negotiations with the U.K. regarding a CLOUD Act data access agreement. Here’s what any new agreement should have to protect our rights.…

4 October 2018

Blog

Supreme Court of India rules to restrict world’s largest digital identity framework (Aadhaar) — but debate continues

The Supreme Court of India has ruled on multiple challenges raised against the Aadhaar digital ID, making key restrictions. …

26 September 2018

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