A government official said subscribers availing benefits of EPS will have to link their PF accounts with Aadhaar numbers
The SC judgment has clearly held that Aadhaar is constitutional and it does not tend to create a surveillance infrastructure, says UIDAI CEO
The argument that Aadhaar has become too big for the country's top court to not uphold its constitutional validity reflects poorly on Indian judiciary
Mobile service providers and other private entities cannot ask for Aadhaar for customer registration
What are the provisions that have been retained, struck down or read down by the SC verdict on Aadhaar, explains MJ Antony
Worse, even when the Court has placed significant limitations on Aadhaar, Modi Sarkar has not been stirred enough to apologise for its coercive approach
Section 57 gave birth to e-KYC, which allowed companies like Reliance Jio to rapidly acquire new users. Will bringing in a new law allow pvt entities to regain access to Aadhaar?
Though the court upheld the overall validity of the government's Unique Identification (UID) programme, it barred banks, insurance firms and mobile phone companies--from demanding Aadhaar data
"When it is serving much larger purpose by reaching hundreds of millions of deserving persons, it cannot be crucified on the unproven plea of exclusion of some."
Verdict builds on the "proportionality" doctrine enshrined in the previous court ruling on privacy, said experts
The Unique ID project was conceptualised as a strictly voluntary one. But over the years, telecom companies, banks, government welfare schemes had all started seeking Aadhaar for service provisioning
The SC's Aadhaar judgment is reminiscent of the judicial approval for denying fundamental rights during the emergency
With a lack of data-protection law in India, there is no entity to audit whether or not private companies are actually deleting personal data of customers
SC has placed a number of restrictions on how who can demand Aadhaar and what services or schemes it can be used for
Both the Congress, as well as the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), welcomed the verdict as a win for their respective visions of Aadhaar, and a loss for the other side
The entire Aadhaar programme, since 2009, suffers from constitutional infirmities and violations of fundamental rights
Chandrachud said the power of the Speaker of the Lok Sabha, to decide whether a Bill is a money Bill, 'cannot be untrammelled'
CBSE and UGC can no longer ask for Aadhaar from citizens for the purpose of conducting any entrance examination or running a scheme
Industry experts said despite the ruling, Aadhaar might still be the preferred route of on-boarding since it was inexpensive and convenient
Law and Information Technology Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said the court had held that the purpose of issuing Aadhaar to all Indian citizens was legitimate and no surveillance was possible