India’s central bank to declare the Aadhaar number adequate identification to issue no-frills accounts
47 percent of Indian households have bank accounts
Each individual record is between 4 and 8 megabytes; add in a pile of quality-control information and the database will ultimately hold in the neighborhood of 20 petabytes—that is, 2 x 1016 bytes. That will make it 128 times the size of the biggest biometrics database in the world today: the Department of Homeland Security’s set of fingerprints and photos of 129 million people.
the Indian Department of Communications declared Aadhaar numbers to be adequate ID to get a mobile phone
I haven’t seen any agencies asking for caste or religion, but the fact that they can seems problematic
We would share data for national security purposes
obtain a city government card that will entitle her to subsidized groceries