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COVID-19 vaccine beneficiaries were assigned unique health IDs without their consent

COVID-19 vaccine beneficiaries were assigned unique health IDs without their consent

Will the government link Aadhaar to COVID-19 vaccination? More importantly, should it?

Will the government link Aadhaar to COVID-19 vaccination? More importantly, should it?

Health / News Chandigarh administration aggressively pushes national health ID registrations among residents Chahat Rana

Technology / News From Aadhaar to Aarogya Setu, Vidhi’s questionable role in technology-related policy making Nileena MS

Government and Policy / News Cancelled ration cards deprived Telangana’s poor of food rations amid lockdown Tushar Dhara

Government and Policy / List With the data-protection bill in limbo, these policies contravene the right to privacy Karishma Koshal

Politics / Interview Congress’s lone MP from Odisha on food security, Aadhaar and the condition of his party Abinash DC, Sweta Dash

Government / Excerpt Did Nandan Nilekani push the RBI for Aadhaar authentication for digital payments in 2013? Aria Thaker

Government / News Rajasthan government seeks access to job candidates’ Aadhaar, or Facebook, Twitter and Google accounts Sagar

Law / News Draft data-protection bill proposes offline verification for Aadhaar; strengthens UIDAI and weakens RTI provisions Arshu John

Technology / News Aadhaar security failure: Government webpages provide unsecured access to demographic authentication Aria Thaker

Policy / Interview “Aadhaar-enabled savings are nothing but government-sponsored propaganda”: Jean Drèze on social-welfare programmes under the NDA government Sagar

Policy / Reportage Despite the constitution of a panel to probe deaths, Jharkhand’s hunger crisis is likely to worsen Sagar

Government / News RTI reveals that ten founding members of the controversial Lokniti Foundation are civil servants Aria Thaker

Technology / Reportage Aadhaar’s mixing of public risk and private profit Aria Thaker

Law / List Master of the Roster: As Chief Justice Dipak Misra Faces Motion for his Removal, Shanti Bhushan’s Petition Points to Ten Instances of “Hand-Picking Benches” Kaushal Shroff

Policy / Commentary Financial Capitalism to Surveillance Capitalism: On the Government Initiatives Towards a Cashless Economy PVS Kumar

Technology / News How Aadhaar and Digitisation Compounded Problems of Corruption, Leakages and Exclusion Plaguing the PDS in Jharkhand Sagar

Law / Commentary The Supreme Court’s Refusal to Stay the Requirement of Aadhaar for Income-Tax Returns Raises Several Troubling Questions Anupama Kumar

Law / News The Aadhaar Programme Violates Democratic Process and Constitutional Rights Ujwala Uppaluri

Policy / News The New Aadhaar Regulations Grant the UIDAI Unchecked Power, And Offer Little Convenience to Users Prashant Reddy Thikkavarapu