PRAVEEN DALAL
Aadhar And UIDAI Are Fraud On Constitution
Says Praveen Dalal
Posted on September 29, 2010 by Gunjan Singh
An initiative by a single person can transform into a mass action and people’s movement. The same happened in the case of Aadhar project of India or UID Project of India. Aadhar was formerly known as unique identification project of India. It is managed by Nandan Nilekani through unique identification authority of India (UIDAI).
Praveen Dalal has been the first and foremost opposer of Aadhar project and he expressed his concerns by providing the civil liberties aspects of Aadhar project. He maintains that civil liberties of Indians in cyberspace have been outlawed by converting the sole cyber law of India into an endemic e-surveillance code.
Since the Indian government is well committed to impose illegal and unconstitutional projects like Aadhar, Natgrid, CCTNS, etc, Praveen Dalal launched the exclusive civil liberties protection initiatives in cyberspace in India.
When asked about the rationale for the same, he informs that there has been a disturbing trend in India of imposing unconstitutional projects upon Indians by Executive with great disregard to the Indian Constitution.
In fact, projects like Aadhar, Natgrid, CCTNS, etc are “Fraud upon the Indian Constitution” where limited and regulated Executive powers have been transformed into absolute powers by the Executive. The role of Parliament has been completely ignored and eliminated in an Anti National manner by the Congress led government, warns Praveen Dalal.
It seems time has come to say no to the Aadhar project and UIDAI and put collective pressure upon the Congress led government to scrap anti national projects like Aadhar, Natgrid, CCTNS, etc.
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Scrap Aadhar Project And UIDAI Says Praveen Dalal
Posted on September 28, 2010 by Baljeet Singh
In this Guest Column Praveen Dalal maintains that the Aadhar Project/UID Project and UIDAI must be scrapped till proper laws and safeguards are at place. He further criticises apathy on the part of BJP and other opposition parties regarding crucial public issues.
Till now it is absolutely clear that the proposed Aadhar Project of India or Unique Identification Project of India (UID Project of India) has no developmental or welfare oriented interests and intentions. The proposed Aadhar Project aims to benefit few selected IT Companies by allotting them the tenders and contracts to implement the Aadhar Project.
This seems to be another “Backdoor Method” of illegally distributing hard earned Public Money through governmental machinery. Surprisingly the opposition parties like BJP are playing deaf and dumb game and are silent on crucial issues like corruption, misappropriation of public money, violation of civil liberties like privacy rights of Indians, illegal and excessive e-surveillance, etc.
In a democratic and Parliamentary form of Government, opposition plays a pro active and constructive role. BJP and similar parties have drastically failed to fulfill this role and the Congress Party is having a clear and unfettered say for illegal and Unconstitutional Projects like Aadhar, NATGRID, CCTNS, etc.
The Nandan Nilekani led Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) and Aadhar Project must be scrapped immediately till proper laws and adequate safeguards are at place. India does not have either Privacy Law or Data Protection Law.
If the Government of India keeps on imposing these sorts of illegal and Unconstitutional Projects upon us, we must take immediate steps to make them redundant. Let us start by saying no to the UID Cards and restrain from giving our Biometric Details.
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Aadhar Project Is Unconstitutional Says Praveen Dalal
Aadhaar article no 602
Posted on 27th Sept 2010 by Gunjan Singh
Aadhaar article no 602
Posted on 27th Sept 2010 by Gunjan Singh
Congress party of India is in a hurry to launch the illegal and unconstitutional projects like Aadhar/UID, Natgrid, CCTNS, etc. Till now it has become absolutely clear that the government does not care about public interest and public money any more.
According, to Praveen Dalal, even the constitution of India has been totally neglected by Congress government in its zest to impose unconstitutional projects like Aadhar. He further maintains that Congress government is taking anti national steps where neither the Judiciary nor the Parliament is challenging the same.
Civil liberties like right to privacy should not be taken as lightly as has been done by Congress government. There is neither a law for Aadhar project or unique identification authority of India (UIDAI) nor is there any sort of parliamentary scrutiny as envisaged by the Indian constitution, says Praveen Dalal.
The sole purpose of projects like Aadhar, Natgrid, CCTNS, etc is to supplement the already existing e-surveillance programs of Indian government. According to Praveen Dalal, even these e-surveillance norms are illegal and unconstitutional. The information technology amendment act 2008 (IT Act 2008), the cyber law of India, was the main instrumentality to gain the illegal and unconstitutional powers of e-surveillance and Internet censoring, says Praveen Dalal.
It is high time to say no to Aadhar project and similar projects before it is too late to react.
According, to Praveen Dalal, even the constitution of India has been totally neglected by Congress government in its zest to impose unconstitutional projects like Aadhar. He further maintains that Congress government is taking anti national steps where neither the Judiciary nor the Parliament is challenging the same.
Civil liberties like right to privacy should not be taken as lightly as has been done by Congress government. There is neither a law for Aadhar project or unique identification authority of India (UIDAI) nor is there any sort of parliamentary scrutiny as envisaged by the Indian constitution, says Praveen Dalal.
The sole purpose of projects like Aadhar, Natgrid, CCTNS, etc is to supplement the already existing e-surveillance programs of Indian government. According to Praveen Dalal, even these e-surveillance norms are illegal and unconstitutional. The information technology amendment act 2008 (IT Act 2008), the cyber law of India, was the main instrumentality to gain the illegal and unconstitutional powers of e-surveillance and Internet censoring, says Praveen Dalal.
It is high time to say no to Aadhar project and similar projects before it is too late to react.
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116 - E-Surveillance And Internet Censorship In India By Praveen Dalal
E-Surveillance And Internet Censorship In India
By
Praveen Dalal
India has not enacted adequate safeguards against e-surveillance and Internet censorship activities by its government and its agencies. On the other hand, India has now officially become an e-police state. The sole cyber law of India is incorporated as Information Technology Act 2000 (IT Act 2000) that was amended by the Information Technology Amendment Act 2008 (IT Act 2008).
The IT Act 2008 although provided draconian, unreasonable and sweeping e-surveillance and Internet censorship powers to the agencies and instrumentalities of Indian government yet it deliberately restrained from prescribing any procedural safeguards to prevent their abuses.
Recently Google released the raw estimates of governmental requests regarding disclosure of information stored by it. No surprise India occupies third position for “removal request” and fourth spot for “data requests”.
India must immediately enact a suitable legislation to prevent growing incidence of e-surveillance. India also does not have dedicated and separate privacy laws and data protection law. This is why projects like Aadhar/UID project and Natgrid Projects are fatal for the civil liberties of Indians.
The government of India is not wiling to rectify the situation. In fact the situation is getting worst as now e-surveillance activities of India are supplemented with Internet censorship acts of governmental agencies. Any dissident who has raised a voice against Indian government must be aware of the brutal censorship of his online voices. You might have wondered why your online news and search results have disappeared suddenly without any reason or explanation. This is because known agencies like Cert-In and many unknown and unaccountable agencies are actively enageged in Internet censorship the moment they see any unpleasant topic at Internet.
There is also no whistleblower protection law in India. In these situations self help seems to be the obvious choice for law abiding and constitutionally protected citizens. As an additional step, if you are a law abiding citizen and you suspect that your online transactions and acts are under surveillance you can use the techno-legal recourses mentioned at the Human Rights platform. If you are a Google search fan, you must consider using its Google SSL service that would frustrate a sniffer’s attempts to violate your privacy.
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By
Praveen Dalal
India has not enacted adequate safeguards against e-surveillance and Internet censorship activities by its government and its agencies. On the other hand, India has now officially become an e-police state. The sole cyber law of India is incorporated as Information Technology Act 2000 (IT Act 2000) that was amended by the Information Technology Amendment Act 2008 (IT Act 2008).
The IT Act 2008 although provided draconian, unreasonable and sweeping e-surveillance and Internet censorship powers to the agencies and instrumentalities of Indian government yet it deliberately restrained from prescribing any procedural safeguards to prevent their abuses.
Recently Google released the raw estimates of governmental requests regarding disclosure of information stored by it. No surprise India occupies third position for “removal request” and fourth spot for “data requests”.
India must immediately enact a suitable legislation to prevent growing incidence of e-surveillance. India also does not have dedicated and separate privacy laws and data protection law. This is why projects like Aadhar/UID project and Natgrid Projects are fatal for the civil liberties of Indians.
The government of India is not wiling to rectify the situation. In fact the situation is getting worst as now e-surveillance activities of India are supplemented with Internet censorship acts of governmental agencies. Any dissident who has raised a voice against Indian government must be aware of the brutal censorship of his online voices. You might have wondered why your online news and search results have disappeared suddenly without any reason or explanation. This is because known agencies like Cert-In and many unknown and unaccountable agencies are actively enageged in Internet censorship the moment they see any unpleasant topic at Internet.
There is also no whistleblower protection law in India. In these situations self help seems to be the obvious choice for law abiding and constitutionally protected citizens. As an additional step, if you are a law abiding citizen and you suspect that your online transactions and acts are under surveillance you can use the techno-legal recourses mentioned at the Human Rights platform. If you are a Google search fan, you must consider using its Google SSL service that would frustrate a sniffer’s attempts to violate your privacy.
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