{"id":38469,"date":"2018-09-28T19:44:26","date_gmt":"2018-09-29T00:44:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=38469"},"modified":"2018-09-28T19:44:26","modified_gmt":"2018-09-29T00:44:26","slug":"historic-judgment-as-indias-nationwide-biometric-id-database-ruled-constitutional","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=38469","title":{"rendered":"\u201cHistoric Judgment\u201d As India\u2019s Nationwide Biometric ID Database Ruled Constitutional"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u201cHistoric Judgment\u201d As India\u2019s Nationwide Biometric ID Database Ruled Constitutional<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n
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As the march toward a cashless (and privacy-less) society accelerates forward, a new high watermark has been reached.<\/p>\n

India first introduced its concept for a nationwide biometric ID database more than 7 years ago, which they touted as a necessary \u201csocial welfare\u201d program to assist the millions of India\u2019s unbanked, streamline welfare distribution and reduce corruption. At the time, Brandon Turbeville reported on the plan for Activist Post<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Yet, although the justification for the billion person database is the increased ability to accurately disperse social welfare benefits, it will not be just the Indian government\u2019s social welfare programs that have access to and utilize the UIDAI. Indeed, even before the program has been completed, major banks, state\/local governments, and other institutions are planning to use the UIDAI for identification verification purposes and, of course, payment and accessibility.<\/p>\n

As Aaron Saenz of the Singularity Hub writes:<\/p>\n

Yet the UID is going to be used for much more than social welfare programs. The UIDAI is in discussion with many institutions (banks, local\/state governments, etc.) to allow them to use the UID as a means of identity verification. These institutions will pay the UIDAI some fee to cover costs and generate revenue. There seems to be little doubt that once it is established, the UID will become a preferred method (if not the preferred method) of identification in India.<\/em><\/p>\n

Saenz also sees the eventuality of the UIDAI program becoming a means of payment and accessibility. He continues:<\/p>\n

Ultimately, I wouldn\u2019t be surprised if the UID, with its biometric data, could be used as a means of payment (when linked to a bank account), or as an access key to homes and cars. Purchase a meal with your fingerprint and unlock your door with the twinkle in your eye. Similar results could be expected in other nations that adopted biometric identification systems.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\u201cHistoric Judgment\u201d As India\u2019s Nationwide Biometric ID Database Ruled Constitutional As the march toward a cashless (and privacy-less) society accelerates forward, a new high watermark has been reached. India first introduced its concept for a nationwide biometric ID database more than 7 years ago, which they touted as a necessary \u201csocial welfare\u201d program to assist […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[8126,22000,17365,1034,422,19838],"class_list":["post-38469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-activist-post","tag-biometric-id-database","tag-biometrics","tag-cashless-society","tag-india","tag-nicholas-west"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38469"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38470,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38469\/revisions\/38470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}