As the astonishingly ambitious project of giving unique identifying numbers to all residents of India has gathered pace, the question of whether similar systems could or should be implemented elsewhere naturally arises. Although population registries have been created in numerous states around the world, the Aadhaar project’s complexity and scale make it almost uniquely ambitious.
Essentially, the aim of India’s biometric identity project is to make government and bureaucracy more efficient in their delivery of essential services and benefits to the country’s population. It has even been suggested by Paul Romer, the World Bank’s chief economist, that a standardized biometric identity system resembling Aadhaar would yield great benefits if implemented all around the world. Is he right? Let’s take a look at some basic facts that might help to resolve this question.
Learning from Aadhaar
It might be good to begin by considering a vital issue that arises when biometric identity and security systems are implemented on a vast scale. Some human rights advocates have highlighted the danger that biometric data might get into the wrong hands and be misused. The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI), the body created to oversee the roll-out of the Aadhaar system across India, maintains, however, that the central database holding the biometric data gathered as part of the Aadhaar registration process has never been subject to a security breach. In any event, such concerns don’t seem to have deterred other countries from considering a similar model of biometric identification. UIDAI Chairperson R.S. Sharma believes that the speed at which the roll-out of Aadhaar in India has taken place strongly indicates that similar projects could also be implemented very quickly in other countries. And indeed, he points out that the Bank of Russia, for instance, has already begun exploring the possibility of implementing an Aadhaar-like biometric identification system.
Source: BBC
Economic Progress Driven by Technological Innovation
According to Sharma, the World Bank also envisages the implementation of similar biometric identity projects in the Maghreb region of Africa, which includes Tunisia and Algeria. In its 2016 report on global development, the World Bank commended Aadhaar as an example of how economic progress can be driven by technological change. Another authority in this field, Krishnan Dharmarajan, who is the executive director of the Centre for Digital Financial Inclusion, has pointed out that any problems that India has encountered during its roll-out of Aadhaar should not be considered as an obstacle by any other country seeking to implement a similarly ambitious project, but as an opportunity to learn and improve the existing implementation system.
Quite simply, the solutions that India has found to the problems that arose during the Aadhaar roll-out should provide other countries facing similar challenges in the future with useful strategies that can be implemented from the beginning. As R.S. Sharma observed, if India can reach the stage where it can provide one million people with digital identity each day, then other countries should also be able to do so.
I think this system is great, but on the other side there is a high possibility of misuse of information linked and stored in connection with Aadhaar.
I read somewhere that there have been reports of personal information leak from Aadhaar for millions of Indias citizens.
I think Aadhaar has a lot of benefits and will probably make a lot of things easier for citizens, like paying taxes, finding and opening new bank accounts by using the UIN number etc.
Aadhar will probably be used in the future by the government to provide a number of services that will make life easier for citizens of India.
Biometric Identity System is information about a specific person’s body. That systems are a good thing that will bring real benefits for the honest citizen and real problems for the criminal. I think this system start in every country.
India’s biometric identity scheme should not be compulsory. WHAT would Gandhi have made of Aadhaar, the ambitious scheme to provide each of India’s 1.3bn residents with a unique, biometrically verifiable identification?
Although Aadhaar is a very big project and its implementation was fast. And I agree with the point of view that says: the speed at which the roll-out of Aadhaar in India has taken place strongly indicates that similar projects could also be implemented very quickly in other countries.
Great read. Biometric Ids are such a advanced way of IDing feels like we are getting closer to future technology everyday!
When your fingerprint gets stolen, printed and used for aadhaar pay, cloning SIM and changing bank password using OTP, your aadhaar devotion will come out from other end. Jai Hind. 1. 25 lakh families in Rajasthan are unable to withdraw ration even after seeding #AADHAARFAIL with their ration card. 2. #AADHAAR authentication does not work for half billion Indians. 3. AADHAAR authentication does not work even after updating bio-metrics and waiting for 90 days 4. AADHAAR bio-metrics can be stolen, printed and used for #AADHAAR pay 5. #AADHAAR does not work for NRIs, people outside India 6. AADHAR can not be generated if a person’s fingerprint matches with someone else’s with 60 percentage probability. 7. Rogue government can deactivate your #AADHAAR blocking ur gas, electricity, mobile, bank account 8. AADHAAR works for millions of illegals staying in India 9. AADHAAR is blocking subsidies for millions of legitimate people 10. Take 10 lakh insurance for each #AADHAAR failure case/delete
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the biometric identity system is very interesting. I would love to be able to see anything that would surprise me. Great work is being done.
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I think the biometric identity system would be a good addition in the US. It might help prevent a lot of the stolen identity problems we are having in the US at the moment. I also think it would help protect a lot of other systems here that currently keep having security breaches. This is a an excellent post and I would love to read more about these systems.
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Once the government committed to it – with the hope that it would be able to use it to raise more taxes, register voters and identify the hundreds of millions of drivers using false licenses – it began taking the details of people whenever they came into contact with state agencies.
Its come with big opportunities for people, hope it’s can make life easier for citizens of India. Thank you for sharing
Its come with big opportunities for people, Thank you for sharing
Its come with big opportunities for people, Thank you for sharing
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