India is the first Country to start a nationwide biometric ID program for every citizen. It will be a matter of time before the ID chips become mandatory around the world, and implantable so the device with the ID stored can't be "lost" or "stolen". Here are highlights from the article.
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BBC News - Why India's identity scheme is groundbreaking
- India is building a near foolproof database of personal biometric identities
- By 2014 half of India's population will have an identity tagged to a random, unique 12-digit number.
- Even more groundbreaking, once established and stored, a person's identity can easily be verified and authenticated using a cell phone, smart phone, tablet or any other device hooked to the internet.
- Unlike the United States' social security number, which is guessable and China's, which adds the date of birth, India's 12-digit identity number is randomly generated. The United States' visa database does not factor in iris scans while India has included them to provide a greater degree of accuracy.
- If the technology architecture is unique, so is its accuracy in validating identities. "The combination of 10-finger biometrics, two-iris scans and photograph establishes the identity of a person with over 99.5% accuracy," says Krishnakumar Natarajan, CEO of Bangalore-based tech outsourcing firm MindTree, which is one of the firms building applications for the project.
- In the future, every outlet with such a device can potentially serve as a cash-dispensing "micro ATM"
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