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Biometrics are not discussed much these days because Aadhaar is no longer a strictly biometric id – either at enrollment or in usage. Biometrics are not collected for toddlers and …

I should also point out that Aadhaar in fact attempts to capture identity itself, not merely issue a document. The founding management articulated it as a "digital atma (soul)", an…

The SSN equivalent is PAN, not Aadhaar.

The equivalent of a US SSN in India is PAN, the Permanent Account Number issued as a tax identifier, for both individuals and other tax-paying legal persons. It has been in use for…

Correct, and my original draft had several paragraphs attempting to explain this, but this article was going into the print edition of the newspaper where they have a very hard lim…

There are a very large number of people from whom biometrics cannot be collected, or cannot be reliably collected (meaning they change rapidly): 1. Newborn babies (who are all issu…

And what is the post-Aadhaar loss? Nobody knows, because there's no accounting. We're still in the "don't allow critical examination of Aadhaar" era of this regime. Also, I got my …

The article doesn't make an argument around biometrics. Biometrics are needed even for getting a passport or registering a property purchase, but notice how those are never brought…

Not just for privacy, but broken processes and duplicitous technological claims. It doesn't solve the problems that people assume it does. It does solve other problems, which is wh…

You have one and only one Aadhaar number. You give it to every service provider that has internal reasons to prevent double sign-up (usually: state sponsored subsidy) Or if you don…

India's equivalent of SSN is PAN, the Permanent Account number, which predates Aadhaar by decades. DBT is also older than Aadhaar and uses IFSC + account numbers. An Aadhaar layer …

It is designed to be a universal foreign key. The number is supposed to be confidential, but almost no one treats it as such, and the founding CEO of the organisation (since retire…

Good sir, if you are required to add an Aadhaar number to an account everywhere, how is it not tracking? There are now serious proposals to require Aadhaar for social media account…

I made Hasjob and Hasgeek, which are separate, but seeing as how everyone refers to Hasjob as Hasgeek, they're going to be merged in a bit. All feedback and ideas welcome.

That happens by confiscating the phone. The US fifth amendment doesn't apply in India. Anything on a device isn't safe from a police search.

The technical side of Aadhaar is also incredibly inept. There is several days worth of reading material at https://medium.com/karana .

You seem to have sat through a presentation on Aadhaar. Have you sat through any presentations on corruption? On what basis are you making comparisons with other parts of the world…

The numbers are not generated on the client side. An enrollment packet is, containing biometrics and demographics, for which a number will be generated using biometric deduplicatio…

(Y u no support emoji, HN?)

FWIW, TRAI has no jurisdiction over Facebook and so obviously has not passed any ruling on them. Free Basics has not been banned. The only thing TRAI has done is banning telecom op…

This order makes no mention whatsoever of Free Basics. It merely bans price-based discrimination. And there is no evidence whatsoever that Free Basics helps bring people online. Ev…

Here's the order this article is referring to: http://www.trai.gov.in/WriteReadData/WhatsNew/Documents/Regu...

> We need to build a more lasting institution to prepare in advance for future papers, have lists of people it can reach out to, and manage the hidden minutiae required to combat t…