As a registrar, SBI will collect both demographic and biometric information of the bank's 170 million account holders.
In a draft document of the authority, the UIDAI has identified three transaction types. The basic ID confirmation will be free, where potential user agencies could be, for instance, the airlines which do passenger check-ins.
UIDAI has asked police to investigate, it was not fully convinced about nature of the incident
An Israeli scientist has revealed security holes in America's passports and "smart cards".
"Aadhaar Act has withstood the judicial scrutiny and the purpose of the Act is legitimate," it said.
The Virtual ID, which would be a random 16-digit number, together with biometrics of the user would give any authorised agency limited details like name, address and photograph, which are enough for any verification.
The UIDAI, set up in 2009, will manage the generation and authentication of Aadhaar numbers.
Suggesting the bill is in line with the apex court judgment, Prasad said people of India have accepted Aadhaar. The bill proposes to allow voluntary use of Aadhaar number for authentication and identity proof in opening of bank accounts and procuring of mobile phone connections. The Bill also seeks to give a child an option to exit from the biometric ID programme on attaining 18 years of age, while stipulating stiff penalties for violation of norms set for use of Aadhaar and violation of privacy.
Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister K Rosaiah has requested the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) to include the state for the pilot project 'Aadhar' as it was ready with the resident data.
'Why does a State that sees a national security issue at every turn not recognise the seriousness of the data from sensitive databases being breached?'
It is just a question of providing an additional facility to the taxpayer that if he is not quoting PAN and only has Aadhaar, his filing and processes do not get affected, said CBDT chief.
The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) set up recently by the government, will establish an online data base with identity and biometric details of Indian residence and provide enrolment and verification services across the country.
However, the facility will be allowed on a need basis and can be used only in "fusion mode", which means people can use it only along with other existing means of authentication.
Aadhaar now has legal backing but it still faces challenges of privacy and data sharing
The Bill neither plans to make the Aadhar mandatory or limit its issuance to citizens.
UID project was launched by the UPA government in 2009.
As part of its initiative to grow inorganically, security systems provider Zicom Electronic Security Systems is planning both overseas and domestic acquisitions. Zicom is in discussions to acquire a company in Singapore.
There are over 25 crore PAN card holders in the country while Aadhaar has been issued to 111 crore people.
The apex court made it clear that banks and telecom service providers will have to indicate the last date of linking bank accounts and mobile numbers with Aadhaar in their communications with customers.
The authority said in response to a report based on RTI that 210 government website made Aadhaar information public .
The apex court's five-judge Constitution bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra said Aadhaar is meant to help benefits reach the marginalised sections of the society and takes into account the dignity of people not only from personal but also from community point of view.
The statutory status will provide a legal foundation to Aadhaar.
Isn't National Intelligence Grid and UIDAI engineered by vested interests, asks Gopal Krishna.
Aadhaar is something that had never been done by any government before, not even in a rich country
Policymakers should consider the challenges of beneficiary identification, distributor opposition and beneficiary financial inclusion.
Aadhaar is a creation of the previous Congress-led government.
This is part of the initiatives that the ministry is undertaking to use technology in order to make airport check-in seamless and formation of a no-fly list.
The RBI clarification followed media reports quoting a reply to a Right to Information application that suggested the apex bank has not issued any order for mandatory Aadhaar linkage with bank accounts.
The bench also said that a seven-judge bench needed to be constituted for authoritatively deciding a batch of petitions challenging the Aadhaar scheme on grounds including that it infringes on the Right to Privacy of citizens.
Admittedly, EVMs too have a UID number and any convergence of data can make the secret ballot system a party of history, warns Dr Gopal Krishna in the 5th part of his series against Aadhaar.
'Biometric Aadhaar-based surveillance is not only about violation of privacy, but also about the treasure hunt for unprecedented financial surveillance and economic intelligence in the economic history of mankind,' asks Gopal Krishna.
'Completely disregarding ground reports of starvation deaths owing to Aadhaar and potentially disguising these deaths to look like accidents appears brutal,' says Rajendran Narayanan.
In emails to the UIDAI, they have also asked for details about the organisations with whom their Aadhaar numbers had been shared.
It emerges that not only does the CIDR project fails the test of fairness, justness and reasonableness besides the test of not being fanciful, oppressive or arbitrary; it also fails the test of Arthashastra, Hadith and the Bible.
The ministry, under Ravi Shankar Prasad, will soon prepare a Cabinet note for bringing Aadhaar under its administrative jurisdiction.
The deadline of March 31 has been postponed till the apex court delivers its final judgment.
The IT modernisation project with this outlay was approved by Cabinet Committee of Economic Affairs in November 2012.
'I have no keys to my house; it works on biometrics and electronic identification.' 'Every time anyone enters, the camera captures it and I get a message on my phone.'
India does not have a stringent privacy or data protection Act.
