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The Supreme Court’s Constitution Bench grilled the government’s lawyers on Aadhaar’s potential to prevent bank fraud, reports The Economic Times. During the ongoing hearings to determine the Constitutional validity of Aadhaar, the Bench countered the government’s claim that linking the unique identification number with bank accounts had helped curb black money and money laundering. The…

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There are seven questions we challenge UIDAI to give a proper answer for (and one bonus). What happens when stolen biometrics compromise a person’s identity? Consider the example of the bank officer whose fingerprints got duplicated and sold to provide illegal access to create and update Aadhaar cards. There are other instances when fingerprints of…

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