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Raju Rajagopal

ex-UIDAI
rajurajagop@gmail.com

A 1968 engineering graduate of IIT-M, Raju Rajagopal spent much of his corporate career in the United States, retiring as the COO of a healthcare consulting company. Since 2000, he has fully devoted his time to working with NGOs in India on poverty alleviation programmes, disaster management, and communal harmony initiatives. He joined the UIDAI (Unique Identification Authority of India) team in 2009 as a volunteer at the invitation of the Chairman and led its early outreach initiatives with civil society groups. He currently lives in Berkeley, California.

Posts by Raju Rajagopal

Aadhaar Bill: UID without excessively compromising privacy?

Can something like UID be created without compromising privacy beyond acceptable limits? If so, how should the Aadhaar Bill have been written? What are its specific and avoidable weaknesses?

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Aadhaar Bill: Move towards a surveillance State?

Most advanced economies have had some version of UID for a long time, example, the Social Security number in the US, the Social Insurance Number in Canada, etc. This is recorded not only in interactio...

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Aadhaar Bill and government benefits: Risk of increasing exclusion?

Supporters of Aadhaar express the hope that will reduce inclusion errors and corruption by eliminating ghost beneficiaries, say in schemes like MNREGA. Are there substantial benefits to be reaped on t...

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Aadhaar Bill and government benefits: Better targeting and reduced corruption?

Supporters of Aadhaar express the hope that will reduce inclusion errors and corruption by eliminating ghost beneficiaries, say in schemes like MNREGA. Are there substantial benefits to be reaped on t...

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Aadhaar Bill: Incremental information-gathering powers for government?

The government already has the means to collect a lot of information on citizens (example, phone conversations and logs, credit card transactions, income tax records, bank account details, etc.). Conv...

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