Is Aadhaar safe to use?
By MYBRANDBOOK
Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) has began face recognition for Aadhaar authentication. UIDAI circulars since January stressed on the need to make Aadhaar authentication “more inclusive” by performing facial recognition in addition to fingerprint/iris scans. In April, UIDAI told Supreme Court that authentication failure rates were 6% for fingerprint scan and 8.54% for iris scans. In July 2018, there were 71 crore fingerprint and 1.6 crore iris authentications indicating a whopping 4 crore fingerprint authentication failures last month.
Aadhaar was initially claimed as an efficient way of delivering welfare. But the trust quotient with Aadhaar has decreased. It was told that fingerprints are almost foolproof but then iris scanners were introduced.
In addition to this, UIDAI was not capable of stopping wrongdoings by agents, which raises worries about identity theft. The reality is that there is no perfect magic key that will solve the authentication problem, do away with inclusion and exclusion errors, and be proof against theft, hacking, malfeasance, breach of privacy and criminal misuse, on top of India’s poor internet connectivity. Govt. should limit usages of Aadhaar, and have other back-up systems to establish identity.
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