UIDAI ( Unique Identification Authority of India ) is a system for identifying citizens and residents of India , as well as a government agency managing this system. The unique personal number assigned by the system is called AADHAAR [1] . Identification is based on personal data, fingerprints and photographs of the iris . The system manages a database of more than 1 billion people [2] , and is considered the world's largest bio-identification system [3] .
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History
The agency was founded on January 28, 2009.
On June 23, 2009, the agency was led by Nandan Nilekani , co-founder of Infosys .
On November 26, 2012, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh approved the procedure for paying state subsidies to citizens directly to bank accounts identified by Aadhaar.
AADHAAR Code Structure
AADHAAR code is a unique 12-digit identification number. The first 11 digits are the automatically generated unique code, the last 12th digit is the checksum .
Starting March 1, 2018, UIDAI plans to introduce “virtual numbers” Aadhaar [4] - from 16 digits.
Usage
The AADHAAR code is used when receiving government subsidies by the population (including food [5] ), as an identity card , identification at workplaces, in the national payment system , etc. [6] .
Criticism
The creation of a single database of personal data raises the concerns of information security specialists. There are reports of successful hacking of both the mechanism for generating map parameters and administrative access to the database itself [7] [8] .
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- ↑ The largest social project in the world (Geektimes)
- ↑ http://www.morpho.com/en/Aadhaar
- ↑ India's database with biometric details of its billion citizens ignites privacy debate
- ↑ UIDAI Introduces Aadhaar Virtual Identifier Limited by KYC on Bid for Solving Privacy Issues
- ↑ Aadhaar card compulsory to get food grains on subsidized rates
- ↑ Aadhaar number & its benefits
- ↑ Three Gujarat websites including government portal made Aadhaar details public
- ↑ Journalists were able to access the world's largest biometric database for only $ 8