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India’s Biometric Database Is Creating A Perfect Surveillance State

prasad1

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For the past nine years, India has been building the world’s biggest biometric database by collecting the fingerprints, iris scans and photos of nearly 1.3 billion people. For U.S. tech companies like Microsoft, Amazon and Facebook, the project, called Aadhaar (which means “proof” or “basis” in Hindi), could be a gold mine.

The CEO of Microsoft has repeatedly praised the project, and local media have carried frequent reports on consultations between the Indian government and senior executives from companies like Apple and Google (in addition to South Korean-based Samsung) on how to make tech products Aadhaar-enabled. But when reporters of HuffPost and HuffPost India asked these companies in the past weeks to confirm they were integrating Aadhaar into their products, only one company ― Google ― gave a definitive response.

That’s because Aadhaar has become deeply controversial, and the subject of a major Supreme Court of India case that will decide the future of the program as early as this month. Launched nine years ago as a simple and revolutionary way to streamline access to welfare programs for India’s poor, the database has become Indians’ gateway to nearly any type of service ― from food stamps to a passport or a cell phone connection. Practical errors in the system have caused millions of poor Indians to lose out on aid. And the exponential growth of the project has sparked concerns among security researchers and academics that India is the first step toward setting up a surveillance society to rival China.


https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/india-aadhuar-tech-companies_us_5b7ebc53e4b0729515109fd0
 
In case of adhaar, research agencies on security are of the opinion that database of users is an un secured one.THE tech publication ZD net published a report stating that Indane allowed anyone to access the sensitive information like name, bank number etc and when it made known to govt, the same was plugged. The third parties have acted as weak links , experts say.Even in the case of a Facebook , though the company claimed that it's database is secure, it was later found out that one of its third party developers by name Cambridge Analytica allegedly misused it.Actually third parties handling has become a weak point for mis use.People are comparing USA social security number with adhaar. There, it is linked to social security only But here it looks linked with all and sundry , from lpg, voter id, noon meal to passport , IT return etcetera. That's why even Supreme Court is unable to give its final verdict ,it seems.
 
In case of adhaar, research agencies on security are of the opinion that database of users is an un secured one.THE tech publication ZD net published a report stating that Indane allowed anyone to access the sensitive information like name, bank number etc and when it made known to govt, the same was plugged. The third parties have acted as weak links , experts say.Even in the case of a Facebook , though the company claimed that it's database is secure, it was later found out that one of its third party developers by name Cambridge Analytica allegedly misused it.Actually third parties handling has become a weak point for mis use.People are comparing USA social security number with adhaar. There, it is linked to social security only But here it looks linked with all and sundry , from lpg, voter id, noon meal to passport , IT return etcetera. That's why even Supreme Court is unable to give its final verdict ,it seems.
hi

in USA.....security number is very well secured....not like in aaadhar....
 

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