![]() Which brings us back to Aadhaar and some rather unpleasant headlines of late, particularly the likes of The World's Largest Biometric ID System Keeps Getting Hacked. ![]() Sooner or later, big repositories of data will be abused. ![]() It's also an era where this sort of information is constantly leaked to unauthorised parties last year Equifax lost control of 145.5 million records on US consumers (this started a series events which ultimately led to me testifying in front of Congress), South Africa had data on everyone living in the country (and a bunch of deceased folks as well) leaked by a sloppy real estate agent and data from Australia's Medicare system was being sold to anyone able to come up with $30. It's operating in an era of increasingly large repositories of personal data held by both private companies and governments alike. India's Aadhaar implementation is the largest biometric system in the world, holding about 1.2 billion locals' data.
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