We have provided our comments on the Draft Aadhaar (Pricing of Aadhaar Authentication Services) Regulations 2021. In our comments, we have called attention to significant issues of exclusion, privacy and surveillance that exist with the Aadhaar programme and highlighted non-compliance with the Supreme Court’s decision in the Puttaswamy judgement. Finally, we recommend that Aadhaar authentication charges be scrapped and private entities be barred from acting as ‘requesting entities’ for authentication.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://internetfreedom.in/iff-submits-its-comments-on-the-draft-aadhaar-pricing-of-aadhaar-authentication-services-regulations/