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Biometric national identification is used in many countries, with India's Aadhaar system being the best example. Those systems are mostly used in developing cou
by stephenboyd 9y ago
Biometric national identification is used in many countries, with India's Aadhaar system being the best example. Those systems are mostly used in developing countries that are leapfrogging their financial technology past the legacy systems that the 1st-world powers developed in the 20th century. 'Privacy reasons' is an American cultural anomaly, especially considering the lack of privacy we suffer from the system used by companies like Equifax.
- chimeracoder 9y ago> 'Privacy reasons' is an American cultural anomaly You can't say that immediately after citing Aadhaar as the "best example" of biometric national identification. There has been massive pushback against Aadhaar for privacy reasons specifically, which just resulted in the Supreme Court declaring privacy to be a fundamental right - something which, incidentally, goes far beyond the approach to privacy taken in the US and Europe.