Kaye Beach
July 23, 2011
Biometrics for identification is not working as advertised and the word is getting out.
A few months ago on AxXiom For Liberty Live, we spoke with David Moss, IT Specialist, Researcher and longtime campaigner against the UK’s biometric ID scheme.
“Optimism beats evidence in the drive to fingerprint the world” according to David Moss.
David’s work proves that India’s plan to bio metrically identify and number 1.2 billion of India’s people is bound to fail. India’s ID card scheme – drowning in a sea of false positives by David Moss
This article, Aadhaar: on a platform of myths, published in The Hindu on July 17, 2011, attacks “three big myths” about India’s biometric ID (called Aadhaar).
The author, R. Ramakumar writes;
It is said that the greatest enemy of truth is not the lie, but the myth. A democratic government should not undertake a project of the magnitude of Aadhaar from a platform of myths. The lesson from the U.K. experience is that myths perpetrated by governments can be exposed through consistent public campaigns. India direly needs a mass campaign that would expose the myths behind the Aadhaar project
Myth #3 deals with the enormous amount of errors that this system would produce.
There is no doubt that the system is unworkable and contrary to the governments expressed desire to use the ID system to help the people, this plan would actually cause hardship for many of the people enrolled.
Who really benefits from mass enrollment in India’s biometric identification system, Aadhaar? It is NOT the people!
Please share this information and help India get the mass campaign they need to expose and stop this awful program from being forced upon them.
Aadhaar: on a platform of myths
The Aadhaar project, just as its failed counterpart in the U.K., stands on a platform of myths. India needs a mass campaign to expose these myths.
. . .The experience with identity cards in the United Kingdom tells us that Mr. Blair’s marketing of the scheme was from a platform of myths. First, he stated that enrolment for cards would be “voluntary”. Second, he argued that the card would reduce leakages from the National Health System and other entitlement programmes; David Blunkett even called it not an “identity card,” but an “entitlement card.” Third, Mr. Blair argued that the card would protect citizens from “terrorism” and “identity fraud.” For this, the biometric technology was projected as infallible.
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