MediaVigil, Journal of Global Communications and Justice

On 4 years of UIDAI 'Many question Aadhaar's constitutional validity'  Rashme Sehgal, Asian Age, January 29, 2013, page 4 It is noteworthy that some 38 contracts awarded to companies and agencies whose names have been declared by UIDAI include:  HCL Infosystems Ltd, HP India Sales Pvt Ltd, Wipro Ltd, MAC Associates, National Informatics Centre Services Inc.,  Sagem Morpho Security Pvt. Ltd (Safran Group),  Totem International Ltd, Linkwell Telesystems Pvt. Ltd,  Sai Infosystem (India) Ltd, Geodesic Ltd, I D Solutions, NISG, STQC,  Aircel, Bharti Airtel Ltd, BSNL, RailTel Corporation of India Ltd, Reliance Communications, Tata Communications, Satyam Computer Services Ltd. (Mahindra Satyam in a consortium with Safran Group), L1 Identity Solutions Operating Company(Safran),  Accenture Services Pvt. Ltd, Percept H. Pvt. Ltd (Media),  Intelenet Global Services,  Tata Consultancy Services Ltd, Mindtree Ltd., Ernst & Young,  4G Ide...

Press Release Questionable and illegal UIDAI completes four years Maj Gen S.G.Vombatkere, VSM tell President that UID is extra-legal, unethical, coercive New Delhi, 28 Jan, 2013: Prime Minister headed Cabinet Committee on UID related matters (CCUIDRM) which also deal with National Population Register (NPR) has ensured that Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) continues to complete its four years of existence without any legal basis and without disclosing that UID database and NPR database is being merged with the electoral database. UIDAI was created by a notification of Planning Commission dated January 28 , 2009 .The notification is attached. As of as on January 2, 2013, Cabinet Committee on Unique Identification Authority of India related issues includes Prime Minister, Sharad Pawar, Minister of Agriculture and Minister of Food Processing Industries, P. Chidambaram, Minister of Finance, Sushilkumar Shinde, Minister of Home Affairs, Mallikarjun Kharge...

Position Paper January 2013 Unions join  Parliamentary Committee  & civil liberties groups to oppose UID/Aadhaar Republic based on illegal UID/NPR database will be totalitarian Apprehensions of Parliamentary Standing Committee on Finance Proven Right Merger of electoral database with UID/NPR database, an invitation to despotism   Trade Unions have joined the civil liberties groups and the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Finance that rejected the National Identification Authority of India (NIDAI) Bill, 2010 for giving post dated legal mandate to Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) to oppose  Unique Identification (UID)/Aadhaar Number based on illegal and illegitimate collection of biometric data. The opposition of Trade Unions against the retirement fund body  Employees' Provident Fund Organization  ( EPFO)'s autocratic decision to make submission of UID/Aadhaar mandatory for its over 50 million existing subscr...

Similarities between Orwellian & Solutions, Innovations Architecture Public Statement On the eve of the Death Anniversary of George Orwell it is germane to revisit Orwellian Architecture which was authored in 1949 when digital tyranny is being unleashed in installments through a data grid on a seemingly pleasant lukewarm temperature.  Orwell's prophesy had outlined the database architecture that is emerging under the leadership of Satyanarayan Gangaram Pitroda, Advisor to the Prime Minister of India on Public Information Infrastructure & Innovations, Capt. Raghu Raman, Chief Executive Officer (CEO), National Intelligence Grid (NATGRID) and C. Chandramouli, Registrar General of National Population Register (NPR) and Census Commissioner of India, Union Ministry of Home Affairs, Veeravalli Sundaram Sampath, Chief Election Commissioner of India and Nandan Manohar Nilekani, Chairman, Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI), Planning Co...