Aadhaar ID System

Indian Aadhaar has some examples discussed herehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41608810

Aadhar isn't really solving these problems, but in fact is compromising on the privacy of the citizens of India. See https://rethinkaadhaar.in/myths/

Is this going to be like aadhar in India?

Take a look at how well India's biometric Aadhaar program is doing:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aadhaar#Impediments_and_other_...

Aadhaar is India's national unique identity program, and has collected biometric and other personal data of over 1 billion people. These people have done an impressive work of deduplicating so many identities based on both fingerprint and iris scan data.There is controversy around Aadhaar at the moment, the Supreme court had ruled that Aadhaar cannot be made mandatory for people, and the government is trying to get around it using new legislation. There had been no legislation around Aad

It's ironic how two-faced the Aadhar system is. On one hand, this is the largest scale modern public identification system I can think of with more complex biometrics than just fingerprints. The Indian government made a concerted effort to create Aadhar IDs for even the most remote villages in India.On the other hand, I wouldn't be surprised if the security of the Aadhar database is already outdated. Even if the database is secure, corruption in the Indian government is so widesprea

The main problem they have is the aadhar(the unique id) is linked with fingerprint and retina scans

In India the entire population gave their fingerprint to the government via a massive program called Aadhaar! [1]This is mandatory for bank accounts, sim cards and what not. So its practically unlivable without Aadhaar these days.[1] https://uidai.gov.in/en/

On the one hand Aadhar is so convenient. If I want a phone number or a bank account, I can simply identify myself with my thumbprints and iris scans and get it activated immediately without paperwork. This has really made things easier for people. Using biometrics also reduces fraud when claiming benefits from the government and maybe makes the process easier as there is again no paperwork, and it is easy to make claims.But on the other hand, all this makes it so easy to track anyone. All you

For almost all uses of Aadhar, 2 factor authentication is required with a one-time-password sent to your phone. It is already far better than SSN which has caused millions people's identity to be stolen and they have lost a lot of money because of it. Aadhar is new and people need to be educated on how to keep it secure but the system is better than a lot of other countries already.