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What damage is done to the people whose aadhar has been used this way? they're going to be getting some calls from the IT dept and be inconvenienced. But they are not going to be liable for anything.
For many people, that 'minor inconvenience' you see becomes a life long problem when govt. and agencies work without enough seriosness.
> We need to go more into depth as to what the consequences of Aadhar number out there actually means.
> Right now, there is less of an idea and more fear.
Gaps in Aadhaar-enabled Payment System (AePS) are being abused by cybercriminals. To learn more, read the full story on The Hindu.
www.thehindu.com
Do Mehmood Akhtar and a Hindu god really get LPG cylinders delivered to them?
thewire.in
Tech-support emails accessed by HuffPost India prove that the biometric identity of an Aadhaar operator were stolen and misused to access the UIDAI software at various locations in India.
www.huffpost.com
I4C, MHA's nodal agency for cybercrime, has requested states/UTs to 'mask' fingerprints on documents when uploading them on registry websites.
theprint.in
Delhi Police arrested 5 people, including 2 ex-employees of a leading insurance firm, for allegedly cheating 22 policy holders and withdrawing Rs 2.38 crore that remained with the insurer unclaimed either as surrendered amount or after maturity.
www.ndtv.com
One of the most serious concerns about the Aadhaar card has been the safety aspect, both in terms of the mismanagement of data as well as the misuse of the...
timesofindia.indiatimes.com
The links above are just a quick search in google, imagine metric load of unreported cases.
UIDAI suspended thousands of operators earlier, imagine the fallout from all this, probability of exploitation, whether whatever happened already is properly recorded, etc.
Only hope we can keep is things will get better eventually.