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Indian Identity

18/04/2013

BBC Radio 4 - In Business, Indian Identity

India is giving its entire population of 1.2 billion people their own digital identity.

India is embarking on a huge programme to give the country's 1.2 billion people a unique identity through fingerprints and iris scans. Peter Day asks if the project can work.

The government of India has embarked on a huge programme to give the whole population, 1.2 billion people, a unique identity number backed by fingerprint and eyeball scans. Peter Day
asks whether the ID scheme will cut poverty as it is intended to or, as critics allege, create a
Big Brother state.

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