In a secret deal, a French company Safran Group라이브 바카라 subsidiary company purchased a code from a Kremlin-connected firm, incorporated it into its own software to boost performance, and hid its existence from the FBI
Software for analysing fingerprints used by the FBI and more than 18,000 other US law enforcement agencies contains바카라 웹사이트Russian code.바카라 웹사이트This piece of news바카라 웹사이트should worry Americans바카라 웹사이트as well as바카라 웹사이트Indians,바카라 웹사이트who are being바카라 웹사이트enrolled for Aadhaar.
In a secret deal,바카라 웹사이트the subsidiary of바카라 웹사이트French company Safran Group purchased바카라 웹사이트a바카라 웹사이트code from a Kremlin-connected firm, incorporated it into its own software바카라 웹사이트to boost performance, and hid its existence from the FBI, two former employees of Safran Group told바카라 웹사이트.
The revelation바카라 웹사이트should raise red flag in바카라 웹사이트India, as바카라 웹사이트Safran (“)바카라 웹사이트is one of the companies chosen to take part in an unprecedented programme바카라 웹사이트called Aadhaar to count everybody residing in India and then assign each person a unique identification number”. The바카라 웹사이트바카라 웹사이트are mentioned on the바카라 웹사이트Paris-based바카라 웹사이트company라이브 바카라 website.바카라 웹사이트
바카라바카라 웹사이트reached out to the UIDAI and Safran Group바카라 웹사이트and Nandan Nilekani바카라 웹사이트for their responseon Thursday. While the UIDAI is expected to respond바카라 웹사이트by the second week of January, 2018, the French company's India office is closed till바카라 웹사이트January 2.바카라 웹사이트 We will update the story once we receive their responses.바카라 웹사이트바카라 웹사이트
According to a response to an RTI query in 2015, one of the companies which has been given the contract by the UIDAI on July 30, 2010 for implementation of biometric바카라 웹사이트under the Aadhaar scheme was바카라 웹사이트L-1 Identity Solutions Operating Co Pvt Ltd, headquartered in the US. A month after signing the contract, L1 Identity Solutions was acquired by Safran Group.바카라 웹사이트On February 2, 2011, the UIDAI signed a contract with Sagem Morpho Security Pvt Ltd, which is owned by Safran SA Group, for the purchase of biometric authentication devices.
The allegations raise concerns that Russian hackers could compromise US law enforcement computer systems.바카라 웹사이트One of the whistleblowers, Philippe Desbois, told바카라 웹사이트BuzzFeed News바카라 웹사이트that officials in바카라 웹사이트Safran subsidiary Sagem Sécurité, later바카라 웹사이트바카라 웹사이트Morpho,바카라 웹사이트were worried about the FBI learning the truth of the code's origin, affecting their deal.
The makers of the code,바카라 웹사이트Papillon Systems,바카라 웹사이트regularly works with law enforcement agencies in Russia, including the Federal Security Service (FSB), Russia's modern-day spy agency. US intelligence agencies say the FSB was linked to efforts to interfere in the 2016 presidential election.
In August,바카라 웹사이트The Times of India바카라 웹사이트that contracts signed with foreign companies by the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI), custodian of Aadhaar data, show that바카라 웹사이트바카라 웹사이트they바카라 웹사이트got "full access" to classified data, including fingerprints, iris scan information, and personal information like date of birth, address and mobile number of the applicants. They were also allowed to store the data for seven years.
It was revealed through an RTI application filed by Bengaluru-based Col Matthew Thomas, one of the petitioners in the right to privacy case currently being heard in Supreme Court.
The RTI reply, as mentioned by the바카라 웹사이트ToI바카라 웹사이트report, showed that the nature of the contracts contradicted UIDAI's statements that no private entity had access to unencrypted Aadhaar data. The contract with L-1 Identity Solutions Operating says the company was given Aadhaar data access "as part of its job". Morpho and Accenture Services Pvt Ltd are two other firms that were given identical contracts with two-year (2010 to 2012) Aadhaar data access.
“They told me, ‘we will have big problems if the FBI is aware about the origin of the algorithm,’ " Desbois, the Safran subsidiary's former CEO of Russia operations, told바카라 웹사이트BuzzFeed News.
“It was always the intonation like we have done something bad that is a secret between us and that we should not repeat it to anybody,” he added.
Desbois has filed a whistleblower lawsuit against Safran in retaliation, alleging the company fraudulently took more than $1 billion from US law enforcement agencies at every level. Safran did not deny the existence of Russian code in court filings, according to the report, but instead argued that it is not responsible for the actions of a subsidiary.
The FBI declined to answer questions but issued a statement to바카라 웹사이트BuzzFeed.
In August, while hearing a petition against the Aadhaar, a nine-judge bench of the Supreme Court ruled that Indians enjoy a fundamental right to privacy, that it is intrinsic to life and liberty and thus comes under Article 21 of the Indian constitution.
The petitioners바카라 웹사이트had contended that the biometric data and iris scan that was being collected for issuing Aadhaar cards violated the citizen라이브 바카라 fundamental right to privacy as their personal data was not being protected and was vulnerable to exposure and misuse.
This month, the government extended the deadline for mandatory Aadhaar linking from바카라 웹사이트December 31 to March 31, 2018.
This extension will be for 139 services for which the deadline is currently바카라 웹사이트December 31, 2017. The extension, would in all likelihood, include the mandatory linkage of Aadhaar with bank accounts.
(With PTI inputs)