> Yeah - except that Aadhar is not anything like SSN. Ok so there are differences between Aadhar and SSN - it is a different system, uses biometrics and has ot

> Yeah - except that Aadhar is not anything like SSN. Ok so there are differences between Aadhar and SSN - it is a different system, uses biometrics and has other differences. Just being different doesn't make it bad. > The same way it is been done in all other countries without a biometric ID card. And which of all those "other countries" is a developing nation, the size of India, with an endemic corruption issue and socio-economic challenges? What is the solution that worked in those countries you allude to, that would work for India? > An inherent flawed idea can't be made perfect. More reading on why : http://www.lse.ac.uk/management/research/identityproject/ http://www.lse.ac.uk/management/research/identityproject/ I went through the links on this page - half of them result in "page not found". Anyway, reading this gave me the impression of it being in context of UK. So I read this article about UK abolishing its national identity register[1]. The main takeaways seem to be that there were privacy concerns and they saved a good lot of cash. Frankly, with a country with a massive problem of corruption and huge amount of hidden transactions (none of which UK suffers from to the same degree as far as I know), I am (and I think Indian government is), more concerned about expanding the tax net and capturing lost revenue. Regarding the concerns about biometrics, we have had tons of schemes on which the corrupt middlemen have collected funds due to the poor. When the poor guy went to the disbursement office to collect the grants, he was shown a register where somebody had already signed and collected the funds. Biometrics avoids cases of impersonation and bank account helps direct credit of funds. I didn't see any alternative solution mentioned in the links you provided so if you have anything concrete, feel free to share. [1]: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2010/may/27/theresa-may-scrapping-id-cards https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2010/may/27/theresa-may...