India's top court reins in Aadhaar billion-person scheme

Publication date: October 2018Source: Biometric Technology Today, Volume 2018, Issue 9Author(s): In a “historic” ruling, India's Supreme Court has cleared its Government to carry on using the fingerprints and iris scans of more than 1bn citizens in Aadhaar, the world's biggest biometric ID programme. But the court ruled that private companies must stop using Aadhaar IDs when offering customers services like bank accounts or mobile phone contracts.
Source: Biometric Technology Today - Category: Information Technology Source Type: research