1.
It has compelled even Supreme
Court judges of 9- Judge Constitution Bench and 5-Judge Constitution Bench to enroll
for UID/Aadhaar even before they gave verdict on the constitutionality of
Aadhaar law and the UID/Adhaar number project. It has disabled judges from
granting justice without fear.
2.
It makes citizens powerless
by making them transparent by ignoring how Companies Act makes donors of
political parties anonymous.
3.
Nothing contained in
this Act prevents the use of UID/Aadhaar number for establishing the identity
of an individual for any purpose, whether by the State or any body corporate or
person, pursuant to any law, for the time being in force, or any contract to
this effect.
4.
It gives birth to
biometrc and digital casteism.
5.
It is transferring “identity
information” in respect of an individual, including his/her UID/Aadhaar number,
his biometric information and his demographic information to foreign companies like
Safran Group, Accenture and Ernst & Young.
6.
It creates Unlimited Government
which is not limited by constitution.
7.
It creates a “giant
electronic leash” which reduces Indian residents and citizens to mere numbers
and it is branding them like cattle.
8.
It is empowered to omit and
deactivate Indian residents and their information.
9.
It coerces Indian residents
to live under a general, perpetual, nation-wide criminal warrant.
10.
It robs citizens and
residents of their dignity.
11.
It discriminates against
residents and citizens who choose to live without UID/Aadhaar by denying their
rights, entitlements and benefits.
12.
It enables criminals to
commit crimes that can be attributed to Indian residents and disables them from
denying such acts.
13.
It causes civil death because
all the rights, benefits and entitlements of Indian citizens has been made subject
to UID/Aadhaar working and not being disabled by intention or error.
14.
It provides for proof of
identity of residents of India who have resided in India for a period or periods
amounting in all to one hundred and eighty-two days or more in the twelve months
immediately preceding the date of application for enrolment but denies rights,
benefits and entitlements of Indian citizens.
15.
It creates dangers of holocaust,
genocide and massacres through tracking and profiling akin to misuse of census
data in Germany in 1930s with the assistance of Big Data companies.
16.
It is an eternal threat
to privacy, civil liberties, federalism, national security, sovereignty,
decentralization and constitution.
17.
It allows infiltration
of the country, even its defence services, with terrorists and anti-nationals
causing a national security threat.
18.
It allows snooping,
harassment and commercial exploitation of present and future generation of citizens.
19.
It gives birth to an
Orwellian State by facilitating emergence of a Surveillance State based on
Database, Global Information Architecture for Convergence, Property based
Democracy to advances corporate fascism by ‘commercial czars’ and ‘private
territorial armies’.
20.
It looks at Indian
residents as suspects and treats the like criminals. The collection of
biometric data is a violation of fundamental rights as it turns citizens and
residents into subjects and treats them worse than prisoners.
21.
It denies ‘right to choose’
to Indian residents.
22.
It is against free
speech.
23.
It is guided by
undemocratic international financial institutions and defence policies of other
nuclear weapon holding countries.
24.
It is anti-poor,
anti-women, anti-children and anti-citizen as it dismantles existing social
service entitlements and is a tool for exclusion.
25.
It promotes outsourcing
of governmental functions.
26.
It defines “biometric
information” as photograph, finger print, Iris scan, or
27.
such other biological
attributes of an individual paving the way for DNA proofing.
28.
It exposes citizens to surveillance
and identification technology companies – which are beyond national and
international legal control- by indiscriminately collecting biometric data like
fingerprints, iris scan, voice print, DNA etc.
29.
It creates scope for regressive
eugenic thinking by adopting genetic determinism for social policies.
30.
It compromises citizens’
natural rights of present and future generations
31.
It is an unnecessary and
wasteful project for citizens as it transfers public money to private parties.
32.
It transfers personal
sensitive information to private entities and makes individuals incapable of
self-protection.
33.
It allows State to aggregate
different sets of personal information to profile a citizen and track his
movements.
34.
It deprives the citizens
of their right to file complaint. Even if his entire information is wiped out, residents
and citizens cannot complain.
35.
It makes citizens
vulnerable to crimes, financial frauds and identity thefts.
36.
It is different from
other numbers assigned in ration card, driving license, passport number because
it adopts a dehumanizing methodology for assigning the UID/Aadhaar number to residents
of India.
37.
Aadhaar Act is an
unprecedented breach of trust because it makes UID/Aadhaar “compulsorily
mandatorily voluntary”.
38.
It fails to differentiate
between identification and authentication of biometric or demographic data of
Indian residents.
39.
It does not distinguish
citizens from residents. It cannot distinguish legal residents from illegal
residents.
40.
It does not allow Indians
to identify themselves as Indian citizens and residents by their own assertion
of who they are.
41.
It cannot distinguish
between a genuine person and a non-existent person. It is indeed like the
life-threatening disease Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS), which
reduces the body’s ability to differentiate between internal and foreign cells.
AIDS is the inability to recognise the self from non-self.
42.
It allows
terrorists, criminals to create millions of fake identities, duplicates and use
them to park black money, park bribes, finance terror and siphon subsidies and
funds from the Consolidated Fund of India.
43.
Under
the Act, UID/Aadhaar is not certified by any government official. The UID/Aadhaar
database has never been verified or audited by anyone.
44.
It does not stop any leakage
of subsidy because UID/Aadhaar doesn’t determine who is eligible and who isn’t.
45.
It is in violation of Supreme
Court’s verdict of 24th August 2017 pronouncing right of privacy as a
fundamental right.
46.
It operates under the
assumption that right to privacy is not a fundamental right. This assumption
has been debunked by a 9-Judge Constitution Bench of Supreme Court. The Constitution
Bench ruled that right to privacy is “intrinsic to life and liberty” and is
inherently protected under the various fundamental freedoms enshrined under
Part III of the Indian Constitution.
47.
It is used to recording transactions
of all the Indian residents for all times to come.
48.
It is the opposite the
Right to Information Act. While the RTI makes the state transparent to the
citizens and residents, the UID/Aadhaar does the opposite inverse- it makes the
residents and citizens transparent to the State.
49.
It opens scope for framing
political persons for crimes.
50.
It can rewrite the
electoral ecosystem by merging UID/Aadhaar database with electoral database and
the UID numbers of EVM Machines.
51.
It gives birth to the
worst identity management systems in the world.
Dr Gopal Krishna
The author had appeared before the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Finance that examined the Aadhaar Bill and the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Food, Consumer Affairs and Public Distribution that examined the Consumer Protection Bill. He is editor of www.toxicswatch.org and is the convener of Citizens Forum for Civil Liberties which has been working on UID/Aadhaar issue since 2010.
The author had appeared before the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Finance that examined the Aadhaar Bill and the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Food, Consumer Affairs and Public Distribution that examined the Consumer Protection Bill. He is editor of www.toxicswatch.org and is the convener of Citizens Forum for Civil Liberties which has been working on UID/Aadhaar issue since 2010.
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