Tag: Aadhaar
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.
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.
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.
India’s facial recognition plans anger privacy campaigners
As Aadhaar’s idea spreads from Kenya to Venezuela, we still need to ask – Why ID?
More legislation on digital rights in Lok Sabha than Rajya Sabha: report
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.
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.
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.
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.