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aadhaar

IFF’s Statement on EPIC-Aadhaar Linking

Read our statement on EPIC-Aadhaar Linking.

20 March, 2025

5 min read

Internet Freedom Foundation

Parliament

Action Taken Reports reveal the revival of the Broadcasting Bill and dismiss claims of an Aadhaar data breach

On March 11, 2025, the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Communications and Information Technology released two reports on media regulation and digital security.

17 March, 2025

6 min read

Medha Garg &

Injila Muslim Zaidi

APAAR ID

DPIs in the shadows: MeitY and Education Ministry simply refuse to open up about the APAAR student ID

APAAR, an Aadhaar-based unique ID project for students across India, was initiated in July 2023 and declared a ‘digital public infrastructure’ earlier this year. When asked for its policy documents, nodal Ministries transferred our RTI request 30+ times. We still don't have an answer.

24 October, 2024

9 min read

Internet Freedom Foundation

aadhaar

Privacy marked absent? IFF writes to government departments against their use of Aadhaar biometric and facial recognition enabled attendance systems

Indian government agencies are enforcing Aadhaar enabled biometric and face scans for recording attendance. IFF wrote to National Medical Commission, Delhi Transport and Education Depts, and the BCI, urging them to roll back the plan.

30 September, 2024

8 min read

Shravani Nag Lanka &

Disha Verma

APAAR ID

One nation, One student ID, zero law or policy to back it up #WhatAreYouVotingFor

The BJP manifesto promises “100% implementation” of the Aadhaar-linked APAAR student ID which centrally stores a large volume of student personal and academic data—but the coercive pan-India exercise is operating without any policy document or accountability from Ministries.

01 May, 2024

10 min read

Disha Verma

APAAR ID

Aadhaar-based student ID raises alarms for privacy

The APAAR initiative under NEP 2020 envisions creating a unique ID for students, storing their education and extracurricular data in a permanent, life-long, longitudinal registry – all based on their Aadhaar.

27 October, 2023

7 min read

Disha Verma &

Prateek Waghre

RTI

RTI responses reveal the extent of Aadhaar use by the government

In our request to the UIDAI, we asked for information about the proposals received, the proposals approved, and the proposals denied.

16 August, 2023

5 min read

Anushka Jain

aadhaar

We wrote to the Tamil Nadu government on mandatory submission of Aadhaar: Voicing our fears of exclusion and privacy violation

We have written to the Finance Secretary of the Tamil Nadu Government highlighting our concerns of exclusion and privacy around the notification mandating linkage of Aadhaar to avail benefits under all State government schemes.

11 January, 2023

4 min read