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India expands Aadhaar authentication for businesses, raising privacy concerns
India has expanded its Aadhaar authentication service to let businesses such as those in e-commerce, hospitality, and healthcare use the biometrics of individuals to authenticate their identity.
“What criteria the MeitY and UIDAI would be taking into consideration for evaluating such applications have to be made clearer and more transparent to weed out misuse, which is a concern flagged by the Supreme Court while deliberating on Section 57 of the Aadhaar Act,” said Kamesh Shekar, a digital governance lead at New Delhi-based tech policy think-tank The Dialogue. Prasanna S, an advocate-on-record in the Supreme Court, who was among the advocates fighting for the Right to Privacy and had challenged the Aadhaar Act, said the amendment attempts to “re-legislate” the struck-down Section 57. Sidharth Deb, associate director for public policy at the New Delhi-based consultancy firm The Quantum Hub, said the expansion of Aadhaar authentication carries the risk of exclusion.
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