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Oct 30, 2017 • 6 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
Remember the UIDAI’s announcement in November 2015 that it had appointed international audit and consultancy firm PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) to audit and review Aadhaar security? (1/6) economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/economy/p…
PwC has been deeply embedded in the Aadhaar program since its inception, and the firm is also responsible for operating the Servam database-linking program (Project architect: Ravi Goyal; Lead directors: Ashwani Mahaldar and Vikram Sharma), (2/6)

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The IL&FS Aadhaar enrolment scandal - Part 1

Why the Aadhaar database is fatally compromised, why the UIDAI has known about it for years, and how they covered it up. (thread)
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Journalists: here is the complete breakdown of Arun Jaitley's Rs. 90,000 crore "Aadhaar savings" lie.

Please test *any* element of it against reality.
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Since the #Ujjwala LPG connection scheme was (paid) trending last week, it may be useful to discuss its relationship to the ongoing Aadhaar data catastrophe, and specifically to the furore surrounding R.S. Sharma's latest contribution on the issue. (1/7)
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