Security concerns with Aadhar --- There are many many security concerns related to the way Aadhar has been implemented in India, starting from how the biometric data is collected (through bank tellers who often store the data on their laptops before transferring to a secure server, wrong data being stored etc.), to how it is stored by various entities who are allowed to collect this information (while the biometrics have so far remained secure, there have been several breaches linked to Aadhar numbers and other personal information tied to the Aadhar, leading to cases of identity theft), and also the lack of fail-safe built in to the bio-metric system, where several people (especially from marginalised communities) are not verified through the system due to non-matching bio metrics, resulting in them being rendered without an identity in the eyes of the state.

Source author: Pavitra Ramanujam pavitra.ramanujam@gmail.com