Proposal to change Aadhaar authentication rules faces more opposition

The plan by India’s government to make rule changes that will allow private entities carry out ID authentication using the Aadhaar digital ID has already been criticized. However, the move seems to be facing further opposition from concerned groups and organizations who have called for an outright rejection of the proposal.

A submission on this issue was recently made to the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology by four groups, namely Access Now, Article 21 Trust, the Internet Freedom …

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