[amrrs]

Time and Time again Aadhar's privacy data have been compromised and Yet, Officials have strongly denied all those claims - only possible because still people believe all the false claims by those officials and government in terms of Aadhar. Even to the level that a guy once wrote a scraper (opensourced on github) that can fetch Aadhar info online.

It's no doubt that Aadhar was a blatant copy of bringing an SSN-type ID in India but failed terribly as the Government was more interested using Aadhar to show their domination rather than put it for actual purpose. Eg: Govt made Aadhar mandatory for Tax filing, India's Top Supreme Court denied. The same thing happened in many instances.

This is a nice lesson, why simply coping a solution from the US can't be made to work in a developing nation because the system and officials are so fragile that they need to be first fixed than the solution itself!

[signal11]

Aadhar is nothing like SSN. I wish it was. SSN doesn’t require biometrics — Aadhar takes fingerprints and iris scans. School kids don’t need SSNs to sit for their school boards. You can sit for university exams without SSNs. You can shop at Amazon without giving them your SSN[1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15796242

In fact SSN use has become more restricted over time, thanks to various pieces of privacy legislation. Meanwhile in India they still don’t have any privacy legislation last I checked, so it’s open season on your data.

Aadhar is ambitious all right — an attempt to assign every every Indian resident a number and use that number as a unique key for almost everything (public or private). The surveillance opportunities this presents is breathtaking.

Of course the good folk at India Stack love this because it enables them to build better apps. Move fast and break things, indeed.

[n_t]

watch this (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Erp8IAUouus) and tell me if SSN is good for even US?

[amf12]

> Time and Time again Aadhar's privacy data have been compromised.

I hate the implementation of Aadhar as much as any person, and believe the architecture is terrible that a patch can allow authentication to be bypassed. And that there could be more vulnerabilities. However, at least in this instance, existing data has not been compromised.

[MrEldritch]

Unfortunately, there also exists other software that easily allows compromising existing data.

https://thewire.in/government/data-breach-aadhaar-details-gr...